About Joseph Massey
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 thatconversation we could nototherwise have had.
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