August 12, 2016
Guest Dispatch #2 – On strife
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 15, 2016
Dispatch #1
It seems almost fashionable these days for various poetry spokespeople to assert – without question – quote – THE POETRY WARS ARE OVER – end quote.…
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?
March 23, 2016
UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION #1
Who turned Robert Creeley into Robert Frost? And how? And why? I know, that's three uncomfortable questions. But uncomfortable questions are like…
February 29, 2016
MARINETTI, ACADEMICIAN by Álvaro de Campos
On March 29, 1929, Filippo Marinetti, one of the baddest of all avant-garde bad boys, was nominated to the Royal Academy of Italy by Mussolini, in…
June 11, 2015
Benjamin Hollander Responds to CA Conrad, 11 June 2015 [link]
"What most people I agree with politically and whose politics are considered progressive don't even realize is that, when it comes to poetry or…