Dispatches

April 23, 2019

The Thought Project – Episode 51 – Interview with Ammiel Alcalay [link to Sound Cloud]

by Ammiel Alcalay

The Thought Project - Episode 51 - Interview with Ammiel Alcalay

April 16, 2019

Dispatch #44 — A Note on Forrest Gander’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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  Forrest Gander has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 2019, for his book Be With. He has been a contributor to Dispatches from…

April 11, 2019

Special AWP Dispatch — AWPed Out

by John Bradley

Portland was wonderful, as usual, but the AWP was miserable. First the enjoyable part--Portland has good food. We found a small boulangerie downtown…

April 8, 2019

A Stab in the Dark The Milestone Poetry Collection of Border Region Literature by Facundo Bernal/Translated by Anthony Seidman [link]

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Bernal has a keen eye and a smart mouth, and this combination provides many satisfactions. Without detracting from Bernal’s book, it’s fair to say…

March 26, 2019

A Photo Gallery

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March 26, 2019

Apolitical Intellectuals, by Otto Rene Castillo, tr. Joe Napora

by Otto Rene Castillo

Otto Rene Castillo trans Joe Napora tr

March 1, 2019

2 Poems

by William Heyen

William Heyen - 2 poems

February 26, 2019

Weather as Far

by Tyrone Williams

  Tyrone Williams - Weather As Far

February 23, 2019

Black Stone above a White Stone — a New Vallejo Translation by Kent Johnson

by César Vallejo

dispatches César Vallejo Black Stone 3

February 19, 2019

Notes from Underground – Ethnopoetics : Somapoetics

by David Rose

David Rose - Notes Ethnopoetics

February 15, 2019

Fun with der Alt Right: Updated, by Steven Augustine (link)

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"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 6, 2019

Imago Mundi: A Special Feature on José Kozer (with a new long poem, special to Dispatches, translated and introduced by Peter Boyle, and with an interview conducted by Paul Nelson)

by José Kozer

February 1, 2019

Dearest Perusers of Poetry Wars & their Dispatches:

by Dispatches Poetry Wars

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

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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

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Dispatches from the Poetry Wars would like to heartily congratulate Charles Bernstein on his prestigious Bollingen Prize Award. Yes, you read that…

January 24, 2019

Dispatches Portfolios

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January 20, 2019

On the Poet James Chapson

by Kent Johnson

(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]

by Pierre Joris

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

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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

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Dispatch #42 – On Linh Dinh’s duplicitous, hateful rhetoric