March 12, 2019
The Dialogics of Will Alexander & Heller Levinson, Part 2 (link)
"A major reason why I rail against banal first person narrative poetry, which is so rampant these days, is that it is not what is called for.…
March 9, 2019
César Vallejo — Black Stone above a White Stone, Boyd Nielson, tr.
Boyd Nielson, tr - Black Stone above a White Stone
March 8, 2019
8 Poems from Document Shredding Museum by Afrizal Malna, Daniel Owen, tr.
Since the early 1980's, Afrizal Malna has been an active and well-respected poet, theater-maker, performance artist, and critic, writing in…
March 8, 2019
Po-Biz Stock Report, 7 March 2019 —Yale Series of Long-in-the-Tooth Younger Poets Prize Reassures Shaky Markets
Poetry markets surged yesterday on hard-driving gains for the new dating company with the cute name — Middle Ages Single Poets, Inc. — on news that…
March 8, 2019
Passwords: Gerrit Lansing with Ruth Lepson, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Robert Podgurski & Charles Stein (link)
“A man of wider and deeper knowledge than almost anyone I have known,” says Pierre Joris of Gerrit Lansing, poet, occult scholar, and confidant to…
March 7, 2019
Interview with Dispatches Co-Editor, Michael Boughn by Rob McLennan at Touch the Donkey (link)
"Think of the poem as a step transformer in a cosmos that radiates energy at an infinite number of vibratory intensities. The poem receives…
March 4, 2019
Emily Post-Avant on Joshua Clover’s Call for Killing Cops and the Crazy Case of Being a Commie Narc, March 3, 2019
Dear Emily Post-Avant, I am a student at UC-Davis, where three semesters past I took an English class with Professor and poet Joshua Clover.…
March 4, 2019
hearing other
Hearing Other* is a collaboration between Susan Quasha and me, and to say how it differs from many previous joint efforts I’m calling it a…
March 4, 2019
Tom Cheetham to Dispatches, 4 March 2019 [Help!]
dear fric & frac et al. somewhat against my will i've been convinced to teach a 2nd online class on Henry Corbin - and to include material on the…
March 2, 2019
White Stone on a Black Stone — tr. Peter Boyle
Dear Kent, I just thought I should send you (just for comparison's sake) a copy of the book of my Vallejo translations. They were done at the request…
March 1, 2019
Jennifer Bartlett joins Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches is pleased to announce that Jennifer Bartlett has joined its distinguished and totally awesome list of Contributing. Editors. Welcome…
February 28, 2019
Microreviews, Vol. 9
Fourth Person Singular Nuar Alsadir Liverpool University Press ($19.95) “Every group has its emperor.” Yes, we here in the U.S. know…
February 25, 2019
The Dialogics of Will Alexander & Heller Levinson, Part 1 (Link)
“When Sartre, and Husserl, and Levinas, invoke human scale as their most significant point of concentration, it rumages, around within a delimited…
February 24, 2019
Dark Stone upon a Light Stone — a Vallejo translation by Erin Mouré
Kent, your translation made me do one too, just for the fun of it, just to exist in that poem, as one exists fullly, in the poem of another, while…
February 23, 2019
Emily Post-Avant, 25 February 2019 [on Aesthetic Justice and White Privilege]
Dear Ms. Emily: I am a grad student at Peoria Tech doing a joint PhD in English and Engineering. Some people find that strange, I know, but I…
February 23, 2019
Black Stone above a White Stone — a New Vallejo Translation by Kent Johnson
dispatches César Vallejo Black Stone 3
February 17, 2019
Forge Poem
https://youtu.be/Kg3e4HoR21g Thanks to Henry Ferrini and Ferrini Productions