May 25, 2020
Special Dispatch: Dispatches archive to be housed at Simon Fraser University Library
Dispatches is extremely pleased to announce that the Simon Fraser University Library In Vancouver BC has agreed to host our archive. It couldn’t be a…
May 19, 2020
Dispatch #53: A Heads Up on What’s Coming Your Way, Dear Readers, in Our Final Week
In response to some circulating scuttlebutt, and also so readers can set some time aside, we want to announce six very special documents that…
May 13, 2020
Nīnauele me Jim Chapson — Interview by Paul Vogel [link]
"Born in Honolulu in 1944, Jim Chapson attended San Francisco State University and received his MA in 1968. With his partner, the Irish poet James…
May 12, 2020
Provincialism and the Gentrification of Anglo-American Poetry, Part III [link]
Pat Nolan on a roll: "What MFA writing programs produce is normal unthreatening psychobabble group think politically correct (a very slippery…
May 11, 2020
Special Dispatch — Announcing Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California
Announcing the upcoming publication: Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California, an anthology of faculty and student writings edited by…
May 9, 2020
Dispatch #52: Boycott the Poetry Foundation
POETS! It is time to cancel your subscriptions to Poetry Magazine and sever all relations with PoFo, Inc. activities. Please see here Ask the Poetry…
May 8, 2020
Chicago Tribune on the Poetry Foundation Petition
For other signers of the petition — like poet Michael Boughn, who co-edits Dispatches From the Poetry Wars — this is the latest evidence of the…
May 3, 2020
New book by Dispatches Editor Kent Johnson [link]
New book by Dispatches Editor Kent Johnson with a stunning cover by the one and only Michael Basinski Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House…
April 30, 2020
Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary
POETICS FOR THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary
April 26, 2020
Dispatch #51: Seven Propositions for the Poetry Foundation
Dear Poetry Foundation, As of today, 4/26/2020, nearly 1,400 poets have signed a petition addressed to you, initiated during this National Poetry…
April 21, 2020
Dispatch #50 — Ubi es, Poetry Foundation?
Why so utterly silent, Poetry Foundation? The petition put out by speCt books, pleading with you to turn just a small amount of your $250…
April 19, 2020
Poetic Justice: On a Pricelessly Ironic Revelation about the Authorship of the Poetry Foundation Petition (Or: Netflix donates $50,000,000 to movie production people; the Poetry Foundation tells poets to go fuck themselves)
Homeless Control Slab at the PF building Photo by William Fuller. The photoshopped version of the Spanish Civil War Republican slogan is by Tom…
April 16, 2020
Provincialism and the Gentrification of Anglo-American Poetry, Part II [link]
Duchamp abolished art, Apollinaire abolished punctuation, Joyce abolished the novel, Stein abolished narrative time, Artaud abolished literature, and…
April 15, 2020
Urgent! Demand that the Poetry Foundation Step Up in the Covid-19 Crisis and Immediately Put Its Capital where Its Poetic Mouth Is
The esteemed poet and translator Jennifer Scappettone has just put out the following urgent petition on her Twitter feed. Dispatches from the Poetry…
March 9, 2020
David Lehman to Dispatches, 20 February 2020
[Regarding Emily Post-Avant: On the Matter of Who Is Presently the Greatest Living Poet of “America,” and Certain Intriguing Rumors that John Ashbery…
March 2, 2020
A Great Revolutionary Poet: Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020) [link]
“Christ led me to Marx,” Father Cardenal said in an interview in 1984. “I don’t think the pope understands Marxism. For me, the four gospels are all…
February 28, 2020
The Gang in Louisville
Five Legendary Poetic Gentlemen, at Louisville, All of Whom Have Contributed to Dispatches (Photo taken following their panel on the great Robert…
February 26, 2020
El Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book by Roberto Bolaño, reviewed by Anthony Seidman [link]
“Perhaps a distant inspiration — even unbeknownst to the mysterious sources of this book — is the The Aspern Papers by Henry James. There is the same…
February 24, 2020
Emergency Appeal for Sotère Torregian
Dispatches received the following appeal from Collin Schuster * * * Sotère Torregian is on the verge of homelessness. Please help and get the word…