December 4, 2019
A Portfolio of Typewriter Art 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
[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
William Barr’s monument to ego and power [link]
"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
"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
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]
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 1, 2019
A painting in the Prado (Becoming inside Velazquez)
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
"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
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
"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
"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…
October 1, 2019
Poetics of the More-than-Human World — A Call for Work
Poetics of the More-than-Human World A call for poems, hybrid work, and brief manifestos on ecopoetics, for a special issue of Dispatches to be…
September 30, 2019
Steve Dalachinsky (1946-2019)
News of Steve Dalachinsky’s sudden death last week following a stroke came as a real shock. I had bumped into Steve & his extraordinary…
September 12, 2019
Dispatches Hiatus
Dispatches will be dark until September 24. Please feel free to come in, take a beer out of the fridge, put your feet up on the coffee table, and…
September 9, 2019
Having a Drink with Matthew Zapruder
H A V I N G A D R I N K W I T H M A T T H E W Z A P R U D E R
September 7, 2019
A Note on the Kevin Killian Memorial
On Sunday August 25th a memorial for Kevin Killian (December 24, 1952 – June 15, 2019) was held in the Phyllis Wattis Theatre at SFMOMA. Well prior…
September 4, 2019
Emily Post-Avant on Kent Johnson’s Best American Poetry poem at the Best American Poetry, 9/4/2017
Dear Emily Post-Avant, So, Kent Johnson is now whining about never getting a poem into the New American Poetry, or worse, getting a poem of…
August 31, 2019
Could Someone Tell Me Why?
Yeah, so some of the people who were my former friends are now dead. I feel bad about that, but then I think to myself, Hey, life is short and at…
August 26, 2019
sound on the spot
"In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky pointed out that the senses are reciprocal, supporting one another synesthetically. In practice, the…
August 23, 2019
Johnny Payne to Dispatches, 22 August 2019 [re: Hicok & Yu and the situation of poetry]
Dear Dispatches: Your response to Bill Freind and the larger situation is exhaustive. You make valid observations. This war has been going on since…
August 18, 2019
A Dream Review of Patricia Lockwood’s Miette, by Monsieur Furry Paws
Miette means “little crumb.” She really likes snacks, so it turned out to be a prophetic name. She wants little, tiny snacky crumbs and things,…