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“There is a larger question, here, of the relation between “principle” and “antagonism,” and Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is at the center of that…

December 20, 2019

Burt Kimmelman to Dispatches, 20 December 2019 [on the Watten Exorcism]

by Burt Kimmelman

I suppose, according to the logic being assailed in the latest Dispatches “editorial,” the Louisville conference ought to ban any papers on Ezra…

December 18, 2019

Dispatch #45: On the Attempt to Exclude Barrett Watten from the 2020 “20th Century Literature Conference” in Louisville

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

The following extraordinary document came to us yesterday. It is now making the rounds on the internet. Petition for the Removal of Barrett Watten…

December 16, 2019

The Reluctant Assassin — Latinesque

by Étienne D’Abattoir

Etienne D'Abattoir -- Latinesque

December 4, 2019

A Portfolio of Typewriter Art by Frank Singleton

by Frank Singleton

All the pieces in this gallery were created with a manual typewriter using a variety of colored ribbons. [Click on an image to enlarge it.]……

November 27, 2019

Dowsing Axis

by Susan & George Quasha

[To view the virtual book, click on the thumbnail below.] [PDFs are best viewed when downloaded. To download the book, click on the…

November 22, 2019

I don’t really care, do U?

by James Cook

James Cook -- I don't really care

November 22, 2019

William Barr’s monument to ego and power [link]

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…

November 20, 2019

Some Longer Poems about WWII

by John Matthias

"I’m going to argue later in this essay that many of the best poems about the Second World War were long poems unresponsive to the needs of both…

November 17, 2019

Emily Post-Avant on the Firing of David Fenza, former President of the AWP

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Ms. Emily Post-Avant: I am a student at a small Bible college in Iowa where I am learning how to write poetry. I am a bit of a rebel and…

November 11, 2019

Literature, Capital, Catapult, and The Kochs: A Dialogue Hilary Plum & Lucy Biederman [link]

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

More voices raised against the incursions of corporate money and influence in the world of poetry. "So let’s name it! This evil, this money, the Koch…

November 4, 2019

3 Objects from Soft Zipper

by George Bowering

George Bowering - 3 Objects from Soft Zipper

November 1, 2019

A painting in the Prado (Becoming inside Velazquez)

by Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle - Painting in the Prado November version Read Peter Boyle's latest book, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness

October 28, 2019

The Radical Feminism of Runa Bandyopadhyay’s English Syntax

by Murat Nemet-Nejat

"The elusive, 'distant' signals traced in Nocturnal Whistle echo the fading and partly erased centuries-old Buddhist images of wall-paintings and…

October 20, 2019

Call to Boycott Turkish Government Sponsored Academic and Cultural Institutions

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

We call on academics, artists and intellectuals around the world to oppose the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria by boycotting Turkish…

October 20, 2019

The Writing of Carolee Schneemann

by David Levi Strauss

"Carolee Schneemann has been putting her body on the line for over thirty years in art. The line is that “threshold of consciousness” where, as…

October 17, 2019

On Valencia Street: Poems & Ephemera By Jack Micheline, reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan

by Patrick James Dunagan

"Micheline died as committed as ever to living his art day-by-day, hour-by-hour, no holds barred. As with his poems and visual art, little…