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Legions of the Sun
Good news! The companion anthology to “War of Words,” Legions of the Sun, has arrived just in time for you to purchase it at the event! The book includes all the poems performed in “War of Words” as well as poems about WWI but written later. The latter section includes work from the immediate post-war (Jeffers, Pound, Eliot, Cummings and more) along with poems about the war by more recent poets, ranging from Louise Bogan, Archibald MacLeish, and Yehuda Amichai to Thomas Lux, Nicholas Samaras, Robert Cooperman, and Kierstin Bridger.Read More
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War of Words (and Others) with a Discount Offer
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Discoveries in Writing the Script for “War of Words”
Ticket sales have begun for “War of Words,” based on a script I wrote/assembled by four Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities actors, under the guiding hand of director Lynne Collins. The preceding slash mark means that much of the script consists of poems by North Americans, written in response to WWI, with an original narration linking and, I hope, illuminating the work of these poets. I started researching poetry of the period over a year ago, with the aim of presenting poetic reactions to the U.S. entry into that war from this side of the Atlantic.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
