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We live in an age where independent artists (including poets!) can thrive without mainstream assistance or influence. Dispatches From the Basement is how I — an independent poet — connect directly with readers. It’s a joy and a pleasure to share my work in such an immediate fashion, and if there’s an art form that is most suited to immediacy, it’s poetry.

As my old mentor Cid Corman wrote:

Poetry is that
conversation we could not
otherwise have had.

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About me:

Joseph Massey is the author Invisible Current, America is the Poem, Decades: Selected Poems, Rosary Made of Air, and many other books of poetry. He also writes occasional essays for The Free Press and The Wall Street Journal.

"A Massey poem is a revelation of place."
The New York Times

“Massey is among the most topographically responsive of modern American poets."
Times Literary Supplement