July 6, 2017
Performing the Real: A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser – Chapter 3, by Miriam Nichols
Miriam Nichols -- Chapter 3 revised-Boston (final2)
July 6, 2017
The Duncan/Watten Debat/cl/e – from Being Different: Strategies of Distinction and Twentieth-Century American Poetic Avant-Gardes, by Lilian Chiatas
For a recording of the entire event, go here. Kap.6.2_CHAITAS From the jacket: Pierre Bourdieu defines the literary field as a social…
July 6, 2017
Permanent Revolution: The Value of Bitterness, by Joe Safdie
Be sure to check out Richard Nason's A Modern Dunciad. Book 1 Books 2 & 3 Book 4 and Epilogue Safdie -- Permanent Revolution (1)
July 6, 2017
Review of Richard Blevins’ A Few Notes Regarding The Art of the Serial Poem, by Patrick James Dunagan
Dunagan review -- The Art of the Serial Poem
July 6, 2017
Finishing Ghostspeaking, by Peter Boyle
Read Peter Boyle's "Enfolded in the wings of a great darkness" here. Peter Boyle - -Finishing Ghostspeaking
July 5, 2017
Here Is another Somewhere: the Visual Art of Basil King, by Kimberly Lyons
Here Is Another Somewhere cor1
July 5, 2017
An interview with John Shoptaw, by Barbara Laiolo-March
John Shoptaw interviewed by Barbara Laiolo-March
July 5, 2017
The Excavated Imprints of the Interior World, an engagement with ‘Antarlok,’ a prose anthology by Alok Sarkar, by Runa Bandyopadhyay
THE EXCAVATED IMPRINTS OF THE INTERIOR WORLD - Review of antorlok-Runa
July 5, 2017
Marsden Hartley and Charles Olson: Two Poets of Dogtown, by Peter Anastas
Peter Anastas -- Marsden_Hartley_and_Charles_Olson_Two_Po
June 6, 2017
Patrick Dunagan reviews A Curriculum of the Soul
"Many readers may feel the Institute’s endeavors and the Curriculum are products of an “in crowd” of the devoted. Yet the Curriculum does offer far…
June 5, 2017
Alec Marsh reviews Ken Warren’s Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch
"Warren is an iconoclastic, slashing writer-the piratical, pugnacious, bunny rabbit on the cover of this exciting book swings a mean cutlass. It…
May 29, 2017
A Brief Exchange on the Poetics of Politics, between Charles Alexander and Kent Johnson
http://dispatchespoetry.com/articles/letters/2017/05/1274
May 22, 2017
Ghostly Nostalgia, Kitsch, and Post-History, by Bill Freind
In “Free Speech for Poets Dispatch #1: Ann Coulter!,” an unnamed Dispatches editor (who I assume is Kent Johnson) decries the “proto-Stalinism” of…
May 9, 2017
Dispatches contributor Annie Finch on Literary Sexual Abuse
"About six months ago, I learned that several of the people who had posted comments in response to my first and second posts on Literary Sexual…
May 7, 2017
Love and State, by Murat Nemet-Nejat
"The genius of fascism is that it is based on love. The leviathan of state turns into a performer of gentle punishment, loving duress. In fascism,…
May 4, 2017
Michael Boughn on various apocalypses
"That’s all fine and well and very intellectual, but there’s another dimension, too, much less cool and brainy: guns. Guns have surpassed people as…
April 10, 2017
Interview of Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, by Reforma, daily newspaper in Mexico City
Interview of Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, by Reforma, daily newspaper in Mexico City 1. Could you please tell me how the…
March 14, 2017
Poetry and Resistance, Introduction to Resist Much / Obey Little, by Kent Johnson and Michael Boughn
Poetry and Resistance It seems incredible that this very thick book, here in its finished form, was conceived, solicited, selected, assembled,…
February 20, 2017
Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson
Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, editors of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars and its new…
February 15, 2017
The Big Neruda Problem Dispatch #1
Twenty-two years ago, the hit film Il Postino ignited something of a Pablo Neruda craze in the U.S., leading to a massive spike in sales of the great…
February 15, 2017
The End Time of the Human Operating System (HumOS), by Don Byrd
http://www.4chan.org And you live in a place where there are forums on topics ranging from science and math, guns, and finance to various specialized…