Emily Post-Avant, 12 August 2019 [On the Bob Hicok vs. Timothy Yu Thing]
Dear Emily Post-Avant, So you obviously have to say something about the Bob Hicok vs. Timothy Yu thing! Hicok:…
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The Reluctant Assassin: Reviews and Reflections — The Barista
Not long ago, I read a report, one of those meant to invoke alarm and despair, about the decline of the liberal arts in American…
Keeping Score (for Tom Clark)
A tribute read at the memorial for Tom Clark at Bird & Beckett Books, 1 July 2019. Keeping Score (For Tom)
Ms. Emily Post-Avant, 1 July 2019 [on the Garrulous Therapists of the Paris Review “Poetry RX” Mental Health Office]
Dear Emily Post-Avant, I’m sure you’ve seen the Paris Review “Poetry RX” column, where various poets take turns playing counselors for people…
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…
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…
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…