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Healing Poetics, by George Quasha

by George Quasha | Jan 19, 2018 | Commentary

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  • ▼ 2018 (34)
    • ► April (3)
      • OBU Manifesto # 3,003, by OBU
      • OBU Manifesto [wants a free day], by Susan Schultz
      • OBU Manifesto [Trump time is circular], by Diane Stevenson
    • ► March (8)
      • A Silent and Eternal Homeland of Swadesh, by Ms. Runa Bandyopadhyay
      • from Growing Dumb: My English Education, by Peter Quartermain
      • Dispatches Editor, Steve Manuel, interviewed by Jeff Davis
      • Microreviews, Vol. 5, by Justice Poeticus
      • Ezra Pound in the Bughouse, by Peter Anastas
      • Magical and Mundane: a Review of Norman Finklestein's From the Files of the Immanent Foundation, by Graley Herren
      • The Matter of Words (with two epigraphs) [a quotron], by Oliver Cusimano et. al.
      • Poet As Pharmakos, Poet as Strange Attractor: Control and Complexity in the Pisan Cantos, by Martin E. Rosenberg
    • ► February (6)
      • Getting Out of the Western Box: Dennis Tedlock’s The Olson Codex, by Ammiel Alcalay (link)
      • Trumpet of the Digital Apocalypse, by André Spears
      • I Am Writing a Biography, by Miriam Nichols (link)
      • A Tribute to Edmond Caldwell, by Joseph G. Ramsey and Boyd Nielson
      • Introduction to A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “By” Frank O’Hara
      • What is a soul and why might it need a curriculum? Charles Olson’s “A Curriculum of the Soul” for skeptics, by Michael Boughn
    • ▼ January (17)
      • Extensions of Poetry, by Larry Goodell
      • CADA: Lessons for Poetic Revolts to Come, by Kent Johnson and Robert Neustadt (from the new issue of Lana Turner Journal)
      • Microreviews, Vol. 4, by Justice Poeticus
      • If Your Soul Seesaw—/ Lift the Flesh Door— excerpt from Never Any Bend: My Journey through America’s Antiviolence Agencies, by Kass Fleisher
      • A new history of Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967 - 1980 (link)
      • “A World of Wake-Believe”: Thoughts On Robert Podgurski’s Wandering On Course, by Norman Finkelstein
      • The Cult of the Noble – contra Rebecca Watt and Holly McNish, by John Rigney
      • Healing Poetics, by George Quasha
      • A Journey through the Hymns of Poetry: a Review of Barin Ghosal, by Runa Bandyopadhyay
      • Letter L, from A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, by Richard Kostelanetz
      • Footnote on a Footnote: Some Thoughts on Kevin Young’s Bunk, by John Bradley
      • An Interview with Runa Bandyopadhyay by Vinnomukh Magazine
      • The Recent Movement of Bengali Poetry and New Poetry, by Barin Ghosal – tr. Runa Bandyopadhyay
      • Descort, by Meredith Quartermain
      • Introduction to the new edition of Investigative Poetry, by Edward Sanders
      • Review of Lewis Warsh’s Out of the Question – Selected Poems 1963-2003, by Tod Thilleman
      • The End of Language, by Burt Kimmelman
  • ► 2017 (93)
    • ► December (2)
      • Microreviews Vol. 3, by Justice Poeticus
      • Special India Dispatch #2, from Contributing Editor and translator, Runa Bandyopadhyay
    • ► November (1)
      • Microreviews Vol. 2, by Justice Poeticus
    • ► October (15)
      • Gene Tanta’s “Face to Face”, by Matthias Regan
      • from "Janina [Janine Pommy Vega] – Visions, Tales, Lovesongs" – compiled and edited by Bob Arnold (part 1)
      • from "Janina [Janine Pommy Vega] – Visions, Tales, Lovesongs" – compiled and edited by Bob Arnold (part 2)
      • Tender Buttons: Writing Through the State of the State of Things, Cunnilingus Review of a Book on Cunning Lingus—will someone get me a lingam—please! Creative Engagement with Petra Kuppers’ Pearl Stitch, by jj hastain
      • Of Stubborn Dreams: The Poetics of Uxío Novoneyra (1999), by Uxío Novoneyra with Emilio Araúxo – translated by Erín Moure
      • A Note on Bud Powell & Improvisation, by Clayton Eshleman
      • Over Coffee, Alone: Some Notes on Reading C.E., by Pierre Joris
      • Theatre as memory, vis-à-vis George Quasha, by John Rigney
      • Of Jack Clarke and Co(s)mic Elephants, by Randy Prus
      • Preface to John Clarke's Tramping the Bulrushes, by Michael Boughn
      • On the Road Sixty Years Later, by Peter Anastas
      • Aleatory Displacement, On Keith Waldrop’s Translation of Figured Image, by Donald Wellman
      • David Lau interviewed by David Buuck (link)
      • A Novice at Saïs, by Michael Basinski
      • Nason’s A Modern Dunciad: A Defense of Satire, Part Three, by Joe Safdie
    • ► September (28)
      • A Review of Bruce Holsapple's The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams on Form, by Michael Boughn (link)
      • Late Hominid Poetics – Overview, by Lisa Jarnot
      • Sharon Thesen answers the Canlit moralists
      • Microreviews Vol. 1, by Justice Poeticus
      • Performing the real – excerpt from Chapter 2 of a biography of Robin Blaser, by Miriam Nichols
      • Anthologies' Diasporas, by Sharon Thesen
      • The Buck Stops Here, Reviews by Robert Buckeye
      • Multiple Choice Questions, by Zhou Sivan
      • The Elite, by Sophie Merman
      • "Renga for Obama" makes us sick, by Voltairine de Cleyre in the Plurality
      • Grey Owl, by Brian Dedora
      • A Codebook for Frances Boldereff, by Sharon Thesen
      • from #TRUMP#TIME, by Chris Stroffilino
      • Chapter 1 from Performing the Real – a critical biography of Robin Blaser, by Miriam Nichols
      • Oh that story (for John Ashbery in a Bucket of Phonemes), by James Berger
      • Williams, Zukofsky, and the verse line, by Bruce Holsapple
      • Snowden, by Andrew Levy
      • Olson, Empire, and the thinking of America, by Michael Boughn
      • Postmodernism and politics, by Tyrone Williams
      • A Selection of Apollonius of Tyana’s Letters Translated and with a Note on Charles Olson’s Apollonius of Tyana: A dance, with some words, for two actors by Peter Valente
      • Reading Adrienne Rich on the Greyhound Bus By Philip Metres
      • "A quick disguise": Ferlinghetti's faux translations, by John Bradley
      • Wild Space: Thinking Space through Modern Poetry and Indigenous Art, by Miriam Nichols
      • LITMAG AS TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE: On Revelation, Ken Warren’s 'House Organ,' and Expecting the Impossible, by John Roche
      • Reading Nelly Arcan, by Robert Buckeye
      • You Can Start the Praises Now: A Poem That Refuses to Forget Thomas McGrath Even as America Is Busy Digitizing and Forgetting Almost Everything, by John Bradley
      • an education, or, olson in a corset , by Marina Blitshteyn
      • Marjorie Perloff, Avant-Garde Poetics, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, by Kent Johnson
    • ► August (16)
      • Dispatches contributor JP Harpignies introduces the 2016 Project Winner of the Buckminster Fuller Bioneers Award. Spend One of the Most Inspiring 26 Minutes of Your Video Watching Life.
      • Prose poetry, by Matt Turner
      • Who is There?: Revisiting Michael Brown’s Autopsy Report and Reassessing Conceptual Poetry Two Years after “Interrupt 3”, by Burt Kimmelman
      • Lunatic Drawings (selections), by Bob Arnold
      • Williams, Zukofsky, and the verse line, by Bruce Holsapple
      • The 21st Century’s Horsemen of the Apocalypse – The Big Four Deep Drivers of Destabilization, by J. P. Harpignies
      • The Barbarians Inside the Gates: Can the Center Hold?, by J. P. Harpignies
      • Sometimes One Drop is Enough to Change the Whole Ocean: Aigerim Tazhi Interview by Philip Metres (2014)
      • Warlords of Atlantis, by André Spears
      • For NYU, by Michel Deguy – André Spears, tr.
      • A very short history of Olson's Buffalo, by Fred Wah
      • Turtle Island , by John Clarke
      • from "Looking for (Mrs) Laura (Riding) Jackson, the anti-social people’s poet, from Jamaica (Queens) to Woodruff Avenue (Brooklyn), by Benjamin Hollander"
      • Poetics’ bodies – Charles Olson and some poetry wars, 1913-1990, by Michael Boughn
      • Please, Somebody Help Me, by John Olson
      • The Poetics of Thinking, by George Quasha
    • ► July (13)
      • Jonathan Haynes and the Rise of Nollywood Studies, by Paul Ugor
      • Introduction to the Chicago Review Infrarealista issue, by Ruben Medina
      • Performing the Real: A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser – Chapter 3, by Miriam Nichols
      • The Duncan/Watten Debat/cl/e – from Being Different: Strategies of Distinction and Twentieth-Century American Poetic Avant-Gardes, by Lilian Chiatas
      • On Consulting Being, by Charles Stein
      • Permanent Revolution: The Value of Bitterness, by Joe Safdie
      • Review of Richard Blevins' A Few Notes Regarding The Art of the Serial Poem, by Patrick James Dunagan
      • Finishing Ghostspeaking, by Peter Boyle
      • Here Is another Somewhere: the Visual Art of Basil King, by Kimberly Lyons
      • Maggie Jaffe’s “Continuous Performance”, by P. J. Laska
      • An interview with John Shoptaw, by Barbara Laiolo-March
      • The Excavated Imprints of the Interior World, an engagement with ‘Antarlok,’ a prose anthology by Alok Sarkar, by Runa Bandyopadhyay
      • Marsden Hartley and Charles Olson: Two Poets of Dogtown, by Peter Anastas
    • ► June (3)
      • Patrick Dunagan reviews A Curriculum of the Soul
      • Alec Marsh reviews Ken Warren's Captain Poetry's Sucker Punch
      • A Response to “A Brief Exchange on the Poetics of Politics, between Charles Alexander and Kent Johnson”, by John Rigney
    • ► May (5)
      • A Brief Exchange on the Poetics of Politics, between Charles Alexander and Kent Johnson
      • Ghostly Nostalgia, Kitsch, and Post-History, by Bill Freind
      • Dispatches contributor Annie Finch on Literary Sexual Abuse
      • Love and State, by Murat Nemet-Nejat
      • Michael Boughn on various apocalypses
    • ► April (1)
      • Interview of Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, by Reforma, daily newspaper in Mexico City
    • ► March (1)
      • Poetry and Resistance, Introduction to Resist Much / Obey Little, by Kent Johnson and Michael Boughn
    • ► February (8)
      • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson
      • The Plight of the Underclass, Chris Hedges interviews Linh Dinh
      • The Big Neruda Problem Dispatch #1
      • The End Time of the Human Operating System (HumOS), by Don Byrd
      • The Love of Poetry: a review of Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry, by Henry Gould
      • The thought and/or magic in Jerermy Prynne's The White Stones, by Matt Turner
      • Poetry as Air Traffic Control, by Shao John Thorpe (1984)
      • The Community of The Curriculum of the Soul, by Joanne Kyger
  • ► 2016 (15)
    • ► November (3)
      • Color at the Mercy of Light, by Benjamin Hollander
      • Why Don't More Women Contribute to Websites Like Dispatches?, by Meredith Quartermain
      • A View from Iceland: an Interview with Eríkur Õrn Norðdahl, by Linh Dinh
    • ► October (1)
      • What We Stand On: 3 Progressive Platform Planks (as of Sept. 18, 2016), by Andrew DuBois
    • ► September (1)
      • Jeremy Prynne lectures on Maximus IV, V, VI Simon Fraser University, July 27, 1971
    • ► June (3)
      • Charles Olson and Finding One’s Place, by Joe Safdie – A lecture given at the Gloucester Writers’ Center June 1, 2016
      • Charles, Frances, Ralph, and me, by Sharon Thesen
      • Truth is that which flees, poetry is never where you look for it, by Eric Gelsinger
    • ► May (2)
      • Maud / Olson & Me, by André Spears
      • A Light From the Ground, by Ferreira Gullar - tr. Chris Daniels
    • ► April (5)
      • Robert Creeley’s Anger, by Michael Boughn
      • Olson and Melancholy, by Donald Wellman
      • Of Etho-, Ethno- and Eco-poetics, by Tyrone Williams
      • A partial curriculum for the study of contemporary radical Anglophone poetry. Unfinished, by Richard Owens
      • No Avant-Garde: Notes toward a Left Front of the Arts, by Kent Johnson

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Emily Post-Avant

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      • Dear Emily Post-Avant
      • OBU Manifesto # 3,003, by OBU
      • OBU Manifesto [wants a free day], by Susan Schultz
      • OBU Manifesto [Trump time is circular], by Diane Stevenson
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      • Emily Post-Avant, 30 March 2018 (Pablo Neruda and the Paris Review)
      • Dear Emily Post-Avant, 20 March 2018
      • Dear Emily Post-Avant, 12 March 2018
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      • Dear Emily Post-Avant, 12 December 2017
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