September 23, 2016
Giant Golden Statue to Language Poetry, American Friend of CCP, Erected in China
Giant Golden Statue to Language Poetry, American Friend of CCP, Erected in China
September 21, 2016
A Fait divers on some poetic contretemps
After seeing the review of thirty-something M. Fitzgerald’s poetry in the NYT that day, much-older M. Johnson wrote the same M. Fitzgerald, a…
September 1, 2016
Office Dispatch #2 – Empires and the End of Dispatches
For those who haven’t noticed, Dispatches would like to make it clear that we are deeply, you could even say obsessively, opposed to Empire. It…
September 1, 2016
Four photos from Pax Americana (4), by Linh Dinh
Kiev, Ukraine, 2016 Liepzig, Germany, 2016 Zgorzelec, Poland, 2016 Berlin Germany, 2016 These photographs come from Linh Dinh's…
August 12, 2016
Guest Dispatch #2 – On strife, by Sharon Thesen
More than it is necessary, or beautiful, strife is common. Strife takes up a tremendous amount of our time and energy; and it isn’t only “men” who…
July 21, 2016
Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry: A Short Review
Ben Lerner thinks poetry suffers from a hatred problem. A problem arising from a lack at the core of Poetry itself. Which is the inability of poetry…
April 25, 2016
Office Dispatch #1 – “What are you doing?”
– for Joanne As the official end of Poetry Month draws closer, so too does the first month anniversary of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars.…
April 23, 2016
In Memoriam: Tom Raworth, by Keith Tuma
There were a lot of memorials on Tom Raworth’s blog in his last months, news of the deaths of friends and acquaintances he’d known forever: Ken…
April 23, 2016
Judith Copithorne’s See lex ions (Issue 62 of Xerolage (2015), by Peter Quartermain
Not all of these strongly feminist works has a title – some do, along with a date, tucked away in tiny print. They aren’t quite arranged in…
April 15, 2016
Dodge Ball in Dodge-Verse-Ity and how the Poetry Foundation’s Blog of Harriet played along, by Margie Plymouth Rock
(See Margie's poem on the same subject in The Brooklyn Rail: :
April 13, 2016
Dispatch #11 — from Jerusalem, by William Blake
Eternity groan'd & was troubled, at the image of Eternal Death! Beneath the bottoms of the Graves. which is Earths central joint.There is a…
April 11, 2016
“On Money Problems, Prizes, and Harrieteers: by way of introduction,” by Kent Johnson
In the past few days, various poet-invitees have begun posting reflections at Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation. To date, two of these…
April 11, 2016
Dispatch from Buffalo, 7 April 2016
by Michael Boughn It was Homecoming Day in Buffalo on Friday, April 7, as hundreds of current and former Buffalonians gathered in the…
April 10, 2016
BREAKING NEWS! CREELEY CANONIZED! POETIX STOCK SURGES!
Pobiz stock update 9 April 2016 Poetix Unlimited stock prices rose sharply on the Pobiz index this morning on news that Poetix founder Robert Creeley…
March 24, 2016
UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION #2
What is the difference between an acolyte of Olson and an acolyte of Creeley?