October 19, 2018

Emily Post-Avant: Réponse à La Flâneuse, Regarding the Anxiety Caused to Many by the Term “Poetry Wars,” 10/17/2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, As much as I think that the new Dispatches home page—warrior donkey + poets in gas masks—is a charming improvement that well…

October 4, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 4 October 2018 [On the Nation and Aldon Nielsen]

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, Did you see the gentle criticism of your piece on the Nation/Anders Carson-Wee scandal, by Aldon Nielsen, in Plume?…

September 17, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 17 September 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant,  I am writing to ask that you explain this horrific letter at Dispatches by “Curious in Canada” whatever his moniker is,…

September 2, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 2 September 2018 [On Anthony Madrid’s ring-a-ding-ding H.D. B.S.]

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I know this is maybe a little late to ask about, but I am doing a paper for my Lit class (Modern Poetry) on H.D., and I came…

August 23, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 23 August 2018 [on Juliana Spahr’s Proposals for Making MFA Programs More “Socialist”]

by Emily Post-Avant

  Dear Emily Post-Avant, I came across this article today, by Juliana Spahr, “Building a Better (Socialist) MFA System.” I haven’t had time to…

August 16, 2018

Emily Post-Avant on “Where Poetry Is Now” [August 15, 2018]

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, Thought I’d ask what you thought of the new forum at the Paris Review online, “Where Is Poetry Today?”…

July 29, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 26 July 2018 — On “How-To,” the Poetry Editors of the Nation, and Poetic Sharks

by Emily Post-Avant

July 26, 2018 Dear Emily Post-Avant, Everyone in the poetry world seems to be talking about this poem published in the Nation three weeks ago, by the…

July 5, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 4 July 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, In a new interview at Jacket2, the poet Marie Buck quotes the ending of one of her favorite poems, “For My Future Children,”…

June 11, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 9 June 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I am going to be a high school senior (finally!) in New Jersey, and I plan to attend Paterson Community College in 2019. I’d…

May 1, 2018

Emily Post-Avant [Re: Jennifer Moxley, etc.], 30 April 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I was wondering if you’d seen the Harriet post by Jennifer Moxley, published on April 23rd, I believe it was. The piece…

April 17, 2018

Emily Post-Avant – 11 April 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

  Dear Emily Post-Avant, I just saw the photograph of the Paris Review Spring Revel and your commentary about it. I like Dispatches from the…

April 12, 2018

Emily Post-Avant – 12 April 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I just saw the photograph of the Paris Review Spring Revel and your commentary about it. I like Dispatches from the Poetry…

March 30, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 30 March 2018 (Pablo Neruda and the Paris Review)

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I just read a post on the Paris Review Daily about Pablo Neruda, by someone named Mark Eisner.…

March 20, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 20 March 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I am a friend of David Fenza, who has just been summarily fired as Executive Director of the AWP, after a tenure at the…

March 12, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 12 March 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant: I am writing here at the hotel bar with my friends from the writing program at Texas to tell you and the ridiculous site…

February 20, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 19 February 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Emily Post-Avant: Letters to Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, by Poets Seeking Help, Always Diligently Answered by Our Exclusive Columnist of Poetry…

January 5, 2018

K. Young to Emily Post-Avant, 5 January 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I wanted to write you immediately. I just read your letter today on Heriberto Yepez, and I found myself nodding in agreement.…

January 5, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 5 January 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I just read this review of Heriberto Yepez’s new book, Transnational Battle Field. Apparently, there is a section in the book…

January 4, 2018

Emily Post-Avant, 3 January 2018

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, I am an anarchist poet from Budapest, Hungary, and I write concern interview in Rumpus with the U.S.A. communist poet and…

December 22, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 22 December 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

[Emily Post-Avant is an ongoing column that answers everything you always wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask. Write Emily with your…

December 20, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 19 December 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

[Emily Post-Avant is an ongoing column that answers everything you always wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask. Write Emily with your…

December 14, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 12 December 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

[Emily Post-Avant is an ongoing column that answers everything you always wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask. Write Emily with your…

September 25, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 25 September 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant, Could you tell me what happened to Flarf? It was all the rage just a few short years ago and then it just disappeared. I mean,…

September 19, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 19 September 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

Dear Emily Post-Avant: You and your bosses at Dispatches would benefit from more engaged, critical, supportive conversation. Instead of tearing down…

September 13, 2017

Emily Post-Avant, 13 September 2017

by Emily Post-Avant

[Emily invites you to send her a letter. She will answer it, no matter how stupid your questions might be. Send to poetrywardispatch@gmail.com]…