June 2, 2019
A Message to Our Readers and Contributors
Dear Friends, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is declaring a moratorium, as of this message, on all submissions until further notice. Please do not…
May 16, 2019
Microfictions from a Chronicle of the Octopodes
MICROFICTIONS FROM A CHRONICLE OF THE OCTOPODES
May 6, 2019
On Cancel Culture and Frank Sherlock
"Shortly after it was revealed that thirty years ago the poet Frank Sherlock had played in a white supremacist punk band, Camille Rankine posted a…
April 23, 2019
Emergency Dispatch — Ninth Friday
As events unfold in Algeria, Dispatches would like to alert our readers to an important new book that traces, through the friendship of Albert Camus…
April 23, 2019
The Thought Project – Episode 51 – Interview with Ammiel Alcalay [link to Sound Cloud]
The Thought Project - Episode 51 - Interview with Ammiel Alcalay
April 16, 2019
Dispatch #44 — A Note on Forrest Gander’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Forrest Gander has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 2019, for his book Be With. He has been a contributor to Dispatches from…
April 11, 2019
Special AWP Dispatch — AWPed Out
Portland was wonderful, as usual, but the AWP was miserable. First the enjoyable part--Portland has good food. We found a small boulangerie downtown…
April 8, 2019
A Stab in the Dark The Milestone Poetry Collection of Border Region Literature by Facundo Bernal/Translated by Anthony Seidman [link]
Bernal has a keen eye and a smart mouth, and this combination provides many satisfactions. Without detracting from Bernal’s book, it’s fair to say…
April 4, 2019
Dispatches Editor Helps to Rebuild Puerto Rico
Dispatches Editor Kent Johnson is currently in Puerto Rico where, instead of handing our paper towels, he is helping to rebuild homes damaged by the…
March 26, 2019
Apolitical Intellectuals, by Otto Rene Castillo, tr. Joe Napora
Otto Rene Castillo trans Joe Napora tr
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…
February 23, 2019
Black Stone above a White Stone — a New Vallejo Translation by Kent Johnson
dispatches César Vallejo Black Stone 3
February 15, 2019
Fun with der Alt Right: Updated, by Steven Augustine (link)
"It happens not infrequently that I’ll casually pop over to a progressive site, to read an article and express an opinion, and suddenly find myself…
February 1, 2019
Dearest Perusers of Poetry Wars & their Dispatches:
So what shall we, in this strange topsy winter, say? That froze in these vortices Dispatches still doth increase day by day? Aye, the days of Trump…
January 31, 2019
Contents, Dispatches Winter 2018/19 release
Dispatches — Winter 2018/2019 Release Poetry James Berger—Threnody for the Death at the Borders Stephen Bett – 3 poems Eliot Cardinaux –……
January 29, 2019
Dispatch #43 — on the Bollingen Prize and new Awards from Dispatches
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars would like to heartily congratulate Charles Bernstein on his prestigious Bollingen Prize Award. Yes, you read that…
January 20, 2019
On the Poet James Chapson
(Read Jim Chapson's "11 Poems") It’s a matter of little weight for most, no question, but the tavern-thick, working-class city of Milwaukee,…
January 14, 2019
An open letter to Dispatches from contributing editor, Pierre Joris, 13 January 2019 [with a response from M. Boughn]
Hi Kent (& Mike, read Mike’s take on Linh Dinh. Of course excellent and accurate in the main, though I wonder about one paragraph: Linh Dinh…
January 14, 2019
Susan M. Schultz joins Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is extremely pleased to welcome Susan Schultz, editor of Tinfish, to it's list of distinguished contributing……
January 10, 2019
Dispatch #42 – On Linh Dinh’s duplicitous, hateful rhetoric
Dispatch #42 – On Linh Dinh’s duplicitous, hateful rhetoric