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
January 10, 2019
Dispatch from inside Olson’s Brain at the MOL in Gloucester
Dispatch from inside Olson's Brain at the MOL in Gloucester cor
December 23, 2018
Burt Kimmelman and Pierre Joris Join Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is deeply pleased to announce that Burt Kimmelman and Pierre Joris have joined its prestigious list of Contributing…
December 21, 2018
Rasula Joins Dispatches Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is extremely pleased to announce that Jed Rasula has joined its Editorial Board.
December 15, 2018
Dispatch #41: An Informational (but Ethical) Note on the Poetry Foundation’s Leadership Team
Dispatches, during its annual address to the Augean Stables of the Professional Poetry Industry, stumbled upon a shocking bit of information as we…
December 15, 2018
How the CIA Helped Shaped American Creative Writing (link)
“The Iowa Writer’s Workshop “emerged in the 1930s and powerfully influenced the creative-writing programs that followed,” Bennett explains. “More…
December 15, 2018
Where does Olson stand now? Poetics and precarity, Charles Olson and American modernism, and the 50th anniversary edition of Gunslinger
Dunagan - WHERE DOES OLSON STAND NOW
December 13, 2018
Po-Biz Stock Index Update, 12 December 2018 [POC VIP PO Inc. Stocks Rocket after Kevin Young Appears on Front Page of NYT Business Section]
Poetry stocks, which had returned lackluster overall results over the past two quarters (partly due to chronic plagiarism rumors—see PoBiz Stock…
December 7, 2018
PoBiz Stock Index Update, 7 December 2018—Feds Take Down Rogue Poetry Plagiarist in Daring Café Raid
PoBiz stock markets rebounded sharply today on news that the Federal Poetry Police (FPP) had apprehended master Po-thief, Amy Poole. Her poem, “Gun…
December 1, 2018
Don’t Be Irreverent – for Sky Gilbert
Brad Cran - Don’t Be Irreverent Also check out Sky Gilbert's blog post, I’m Afraid of ‘Woke People’
November 27, 2018
Microreviews, Vol. 8
Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trumps America Maria Isabel Alvarez and Dante Di Stefano New York Quarterly Books ($21.95) …
November 7, 2018
Benjamin Zephaniah will not work for ‘oppressors’ as poet laureate (link)
Writer and dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah has ruled himself out of becoming the next poet laureate of England, saying he has "absolutely no interest" in…
November 3, 2018
The Narcissism of Minor Differences
Andrew Levy - The Narcissism of Minor Differences