August 17, 2017
The Protestant View, by Edward Dorn
The Protestant View The eternal dissent and the ravages of faction are preferable to the voluntary servitude of blind obedience ABHORRENCES
August 17, 2017
Berkeley lock down
BERKELEY, CA—Advising poets to remain in their dormitories, offices, and classrooms until the situation was resolved, the University of…
August 17, 2017
Dispatch #3
A book to come In the very near future, when the virtual blogs and the discussion boards will have collapsed, a book will be printed in the tradition…
August 17, 2017
Letter to PEN American Center
LETTER TO PEN AMERICAN CENTER Dear Suzanne Nossel and László Jakab Orsós, It was with great disappointment that we noticed the Israeli government's…
August 17, 2017
Dispatch #4
One poetry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient – Edward Dorn
August 17, 2017
AWP Dispatch #2
Walter Benjamin wrote about the baleful influence of the daily newspaper in one of his essays (was it “One-Way Street”?), saying that the front page…
August 17, 2017
PoBiz Stock Index Update, 4 April 2016
Second-Gen ConPo Visions instruments have risen slowly in past four months after Board signaled that remaining stock held in ConPo Central Industries…
August 17, 2017
Dispatch # 7
It has been brought to our attention that certain readers find Dispatches from the Poetry Wars to be "ugh, embarrassing because “unlike Olson’s and…
August 17, 2017
Dispatch #8
The Poetry Foundation, which a few years ago tried to incarcerate a number of peaceful, civil disobedient poet-protesters at its new $23 million…
August 17, 2017
Dispatch #9
Michael Lista interview on the Canadian poetry wars over moral responsibility versus lust for prize money: "As I wrote in the piece, my bet was that…
August 16, 2017
Dispatch #6 — PoFo, Inc. Security Slab
An actual remote-controlled Security Slab at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. The photo of the Slab is by William Fuller. The photoshopped…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #11
"The point of building the city, polis, as Blake’s emanative Jerusalem, which he called “liberty among men,” is not to make the citizenry equal in…
August 15, 2017
Poetry Foundation dolzhna byt’ natsionalizirovana!!
"The Poetry Foundation must be nationalized.
August 15, 2017
An Announcement
Extending its newly begun mission to implacably confront all manner of poetic institutionalization and careerism, Dispatches from the Poetry…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #12: Mayday
Muy feliz 1 de mayo, poetas gringos. Y muerte al arribismo en la poesía. – César Vallejo [A very happy May 1st, gringo poets. And death to…