August 14, 2017
OBU Manifesto #1
Dispatches has received a communique from an anonymous collective called OBU. The group has stated that it intends to send…
August 11, 2017
But State-sponsored Trips for Tight-lipped U.S. Avant-Garde Poets are Still on Tap [link]
China: lawyer for Ai Weiwei jailed for 12 years in 'severe retaliation'
August 2, 2017
For Jack Collom, by Edward Sanders
Sanders Collom Jack Collom, Boulder poet and educator, remembered for 'a great run of a life'
July 27, 2017
Pranab K Chakraborty to Dispatches, 26 July 2017
Dear Dispatches: No window there open to make any comment, so I put my gratitude here to Runa Bandyopadhyay who has tried to expose her poetic…
July 14, 2017
Liu Xiaobo has died
The writer, critic, poet, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, after six and a half years in a Chinese prison. His crime…
July 8, 2017
from The Contractor’s Song, by Tom Pickard
Twts_Untitled-1 from Michael Boughn on Vimeo.
July 7, 2017
For Chris’ Memorial, a funeral oration, by J.P. Harpignies
JP Harpignies - For Chris' Memorial rev
July 6, 2017
Illusion/Delusion, by Ben Perrone
Illusion/Delusion (2009) by Ben Perrone Black paper bags and monofilament. 312 x 252 x 252 in. (792.48 x 640.08 x 640.08 cm). Illusion/Delusion is…
July 6, 2017
Selections from Two Bodies of Work, and How to Draw a Landscape, by Paul Collins
Paul Collins - Selections from two bodies of work and How to make a Lanscape
July 4, 2017
Resist Much/Obey Little in the Village Voice
"That’s an awfully attractive message, which helps explain why one of his most famous lines, from his 'Songs of Insurrection' is now the title of a…
July 3, 2017
‘Your Lifelong Prisoner’ – Liu Xiaobo’s poem from prison
To Xia My dear, I'll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors' jail, but I'll be your willing prisoner for life. I'm your lifelong…
June 12, 2017
Important cultural appropriation update [link]
This is an important essay by Brian Fawcett, sytematically engaging the question of "cultural appropriation" with penetrating vision and articulate…
June 10, 2017
Juan Goytisolo writer dies at 86 in Marrakech, by Ammiel Alcalay
From Ammiel Alcalay: With sadness the news came that a true giant of witness, testimony, form, and conscience, Juan Goytisolo, passed away in…
June 5, 2017
Alec Marsh reviews Ken Warren’s Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch
"Warren is an iconoclastic, slashing writer-the piratical, pugnacious, bunny rabbit on the cover of this exciting book swings a mean cutlass. It…
May 27, 2017
Stan Persky on Larry Fagin (1937-2017)
"A little over a decade ago, I was in New York and met with Larry one spring morning. Shortly after, I wrote an account of being in New York in a…
May 26, 2017
To Ben, by Murat Nemet-Nejat
To Ben (Address given by Murat Nemet-Nejat at the Memorial Event for Benjamin Hollander at the Poetry Center, San Francisco, on February 5, 2017)…
May 23, 2017
Poetry Wars Revived, by Paul Nelson
"Most of the LANGPO vs. Black Mountain poetry war was fought before I was invested in poetry, so I have done my best to catch up, but a recrudescence…
May 23, 2017
Niedecker ‘treasure trove’ returned to Fort museum
The poet and critic Steel Wagstaff, at the University of Wisconsin/Madison and Board member of Friends of Lorine Niedecker, has sent us the following…
May 19, 2017
Michael Heller celebrated
The poet Jon Curley (co-editor with Burt Kimmelman ofThe Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory), at Poets House in NYC, on May 13,…
May 15, 2017
poem, by andrew whiteman
happy to oblige cant wait to hear watt's so contentious about a zuk lecture * * * * * andrew whiteman, a Canadian musician and…
May 12, 2017
OBU Manifestos 19, 20, & 21
OBU Manifesto 19 The movement is the sum of all movements (though it doesn’t yet exist). The movement is the empty space between the…