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On July 4th, start of Year II of the Poetic Autonomous Zone Republican Calendar (the below only about 1/2 of the new material present):
NEWLY DESIGNED Dispatches from the Poetry Wars –
JULY 1 (+3) UPDATE – in celebration of the day Henry took up his abode in the shack he built down on Waldo’s pond, Dispatches is offering a plethora of riches for the curious, the engaged, and those not afraid of a little good old-fashioned Empedoclean strife:
INCLUDING Sonic Poetry’s (andrew whiteman and Adrienne Amato) video tribute to Amiri Baraka’s DOPE; Kenneth Warren on Olson and empire; Marina Blitshteyn on Olson in a corset; Bob Buckeye reading Nelly Arcan; more of Linh Dinh’s photos from Pax America; Fred Wah’s archival photos from Onetto’s; Frances Boldereff on Walt Whitman; Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia Manifesto, translated and annotated by Chris Daniels; Joanne Kyger on the community of the Curriculum of the Soul; Niagara Frontier Review #1; Blackface at the Poetry Foundation; Linh Dinh’s interview with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl; Benjamin Péret on the dishonor of poets; Stephen Collis on Phyllis Webb; an excerpt from Meredith Quartermain’s new novel; unspeakable epistolary strife from Dunagan, Boughn, Alcalay, Johnson and Turner (who are not afraid of a little mental dust-up to help clarify things); news from Ruth Lepson, Eric Gelsinger, and Joe Safdie; JP Harpignies on Brexit; and more poetry than you can shake a stick at, from Susan Lewis, Nicole Markotic, Susan Musgrave, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Andrés Ajens, Rodlofo Ortiz and many many more.
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars – a real firecracker – watch your fingers.