May 31, 2020

Dispatch #54 — Hasta la vista, baby

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

Dispatches #54 - Hasta la Vista, baby

May 31, 2020

115 Farewell Dispatches to Dispatches, May, 2020

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

dispatches final tributes3

May 29, 2020

This Other Thing

by Joanne Kyger

Joanne-Kyger-This-Other-Thing red

May 29, 2020

Words, Loves 1980 — Robert Creeley and Ken Belford

by Barry McKinnon

See also "Spot -- a rediscovered poem by Robert Creeley" BELFORD WORDS LOVES (2)

May 28, 2020

An extract from A Life of Olson, & a Sequence of Glyphs on his Life, Work, & Times

by Edward Sanders

Dispatches Editions and Spuyten Duyvil Press are delighted to announce the imminent publication of the new biography of Charles Olson, A Life of…

May 28, 2020

“The Human Title,” excerpted from Olson on Shakespeare: The Late Plays and the Post-Modern Present,

by Charles Olson

  Olson on Shakespeare Chapter 3 corrected

May 26, 2020

Spot – a rediscovered poem by Robert Creeley

by Robert Creeley

While preparing for the “Words, Loves” conference in Prince George, BC in the winter of 1980, Barry McKinnon received by mail two poems from Robert…

May 26, 2020

Joanne — A novel from the inside out

by Joanne Kyger

Dispatches is pleased to present this document by Joanne Kyger — Joanne, a novel from the inside out, first published by Angel Hair Press in 1970.…

May 25, 2020

Pandemic Poetics, or Navigating the Shifting Forces of Social Gravity

by George Quasha

Last week Monica de la Torre remarked, in effect, that in pandemic isolation with its suspension of normal social interaction she experienced a…

May 25, 2020

Special Dispatch: Dispatches archive to be housed at Simon Fraser University Library

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

Dispatches is extremely pleased to announce that the Simon Fraser University Library In Vancouver BC has agreed to host our archive. It couldn’t be a…

May 24, 2020

“Daddy Nixon” (1974), by Ahmed Fouad Negm (Aḥmad Fu’ād Najm) — tr. Ahmed Hassan and Elliott Colla

by Ahmed Fouad Negm

On the Rebel Egyptian Poet Ahmed Fouan Negm Elliott Colla is Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at…

May 23, 2020

Shelter in Poems

by Joe Safdie

Joe Safdie - shelter in poems

May 22, 2020

Oneiric Triptych

by Robert Podgurski

Oneiric Triptych

May 22, 2020

My Mother-in-Law’s Apple Tree by Sardar Aziz, tr. Pshtewan Kamal Babakir and David Shook 

by Sardar Aziz

A few days ago, during a nighttime rainstorm, the apple tree finally toppled over. Although we all expected this, no one was emotionless at its…

May 22, 2020

4 Vispo pieces

by guillermo daghero

libro no libro, je livre le livre, livro me

May 21, 2020

Six Poems by Peter Burghardt

by Peter Burghardt

  Dispatches Peter Burghardt

May 21, 2020

A Void

by Gavin Bantock

Gavin Bantock - A VOID

May 19, 2020

Dispatch #53: A Heads Up on What’s Coming Your Way, Dear Readers, in Our Final Week

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

In response to some circulating scuttlebutt, and also so readers can set some time aside, we want to announce six very special documents that…

May 18, 2020

AWP San Antonio Report

by Keith Tuma

Keith Tuma - San Antonio

May 18, 2020

Thinking of You

by Kit Schluter

“Throats’ blessures a-clotting through planar and lunar and glandular sophists in the market for grain. What? Unvoiceable traffic plaques the ruining…

May 16, 2020

10 Poems from Dear Demons

by Tina Posner

Tina Posner — 10 poems from Dear Demons

May 16, 2020

6 Poems

by Marina Lazzara

MarinaLazzara Poems March 2020 2

May 13, 2020

Nīnauele me Jim Chapson — Interview by Paul Vogel [link]

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

"Born in Honolulu in 1944, Jim Chapson attended San Francisco State University and received his MA in 1968. With his partner, the Irish poet James…

May 12, 2020

Provincialism and the Gentrification of Anglo-American Poetry, Part III [link]

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

Pat Nolan on a roll: "What MFA writing programs produce is normal unthreatening psychobabble group think politically correct (a very slippery…

May 12, 2020

some hearts north / i

by James Cook

James Cook - Some hearts north