Dispatches

December 7, 2018

PoBiz Stock Index Update, 7 December 2018—Feds Take Down Rogue Poetry Plagiarist in Daring Café Raid

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

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

by Brad Cran

Brad Cran - Don’t Be Irreverent Also check out Sky Gilbert's blog post, I’m Afraid of ‘Woke People’

November 29, 2018

Robert Duncan at 100 — A Call for Proposals

by Michael Franco

November 7, 2018

Benjamin Zephaniah will not work for ‘oppressors’ as poet laureate (link)

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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

by Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy - The Narcissism of Minor Differences

October 24, 2018

New poetry from Australia – a portfolio edited by MTC Cronin

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October 20, 2018

Photo dispatch from Nashville

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October 10, 2018

Dispatch #40 – Mythtory, complexity, & the Carlson-Wee/Nation affair

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

Myth is often presented as some long gone mode of fantasizing explanations for the inexplicable and dismissed as meaningless, especially when…

October 4, 2018

Dispatches Fall 2018 Update

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is back after a somnolent summer of whimsy and digressive delight. We swam and fished, wrote poetry and stared…

October 3, 2018

Dispatches Fall Update contents

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Poetry Andres Ajens— Elogio a Jessica Sequeira Ammiel Alcalay – Democracy in Action Omar al-Nakib –  Elahi Sure The Blunt Research Group—Good Night…

October 3, 2018

Poetry as Politics III

by Bill Freind

Freind -- Poetry as Politics III - 3

September 25, 2018

Dispatch #39 – Charles Olson to Al Glover

by Charles Olson

September 24, 2018

12 new OBU Manifestos from various writers

by Eileen Tabios

Including Eileen Tabios, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Geri Lipschultz, Diane Stevenson, Dwayne Betts, Terese Svboda, and Michael Davidson, and OBU  …

September 24, 2018

The Poetics Of Reincarnation

by Whit Griffin

POR Rewrite24

September 24, 2018

Despatj Expurtamentalus Frum Bubbalin’ Dabalern Tewn

by Kolden Karkrashium

No, the Irish were slaves. We are the world's most oppressed race of victims in the history of humanity to have ever been oppressed by the many nasty…

September 24, 2018

Neruda’s Ghosts (link)

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"Pablo Neruda’s only daughter, Malva Marina, was born in Madrid, in August 1934, and died a little over eight years later, in Nazi-occupied Holland,…

September 23, 2018

Remembering 1968, by Eric Powell (link)

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September 17, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 17 September 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant,  I am writing to ask that you explain this horrific letter at Dispatches by “Curious in Canada” whatever his moniker is,…

September 11, 2018

Shrinkrap 4

by Android Spit

Click for audio https://www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SHRINKRAP-rec.-Andre-Spears.mp3   Androis Spit - Shrinkrap 4…

September 6, 2018

Microreviews Vol. 7

by Justice Poeticus

Microreviews, Vol. 7   420 Characters Lou Beach Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  ($22.00)   Each prose piece is limited to 420 characters (including…