September 2, 2017
Homage to J.H. Prynne
Homage to J.H. Prynne, new scolder of naïve, deceived poets (mainly American ones, like Charles Olson), who fall prey, in his words, to "crackpot"…
September 2, 2017
The Ashbery mystery continues
The Ashbery mystery continues. Received on September 28. This time with a signature. Is it an original typescript of the famous poem? Or is it…
August 30, 2017
David Giannini to Dispatches Re: new “Ashbery biz, 30 September 2016”
Hello Dispatches! The "At North Farm" document's signature appears to be genuine, based on various signed editions I have from Ashbery. What makes no…
August 30, 2017
Tom Raworth, 1938-2017
Tom Raworth 1938-2017 Envoi I could go on like this all dayTi-tum ti-tum and doodly-ay…
August 30, 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…
August 30, 2017
David Meltzer
Dispatches has just had news that our friend David Meltzer has suffered a massive stroke. Please keep him in your thoughts today.
August 30, 2017
Juan Goytisolo writer dies at 86 in Marrakech
From Ammiel Alcalay: With sadness the news came that a true giant of witness, testimony, form, and conscience, Juan Goytisolo, passed away in his…
August 30, 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…
August 25, 2017
Who is There?: Revisiting Michael Brown’s Autopsy Report and Reassessing Conceptual Poetry Two Years after “Interrupt 3”, by Burt Kimmelman
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August 22, 2017
Ammiel Alcalay on David Meltzer
David Meltzer at home in Oakland with Lost & Found, Series III It is with great sorrow that I…
August 22, 2017
A message from Anne Waldman
Poets are summoned to a stronger imagination of language and humanity in a time of new and radical Weathers. White House Inc is the last gasp…
August 21, 2017
Yasusada, 20 Years Later
Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997). Few books…
August 16, 2017
OBU Manifestos
OBU Manifestos, now avaiable from Spuyten Duyvil Press One Big Union aka Oligarchy Busters United--a serious and radical hoot, a real send-up…
August 16, 2017
Politics as Poetry, or why the Trump Campaign Understands Poetry Better than the Language Poets, by Bill Freind
No one has more conclusively shown the dangers of believing their poetry is implicitly political than the “Language” Poets. That would certainly come…
August 10, 2017
Poetry Is (speaking portraits), by George Quasha
Check out George Quasha's Vimeo series, Poetry Is (speaking portraits https://vimeo.com/129744982
August 9, 2017
The Poetics of Thinking, by George Quasha
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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 11, 2017
Introduction to the Chicago Review Infrarealista issue, by Ruben Medina
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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…
February 28, 2017
OBU Interlude 1
Dispatches has received a communique from an anonymous collective called OBU, announcing a sixteen-part Manifesto. The group has…
January 17, 2017
Politics as Poetry (II): Donald Trump, America’s Poet, by Bill Freind
Years ago I cooked in a Seattle restaurant that was slowly heading toward bankruptcy. During one typically slow shift, an Anglo prep cook named Peter…