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Colorado Poets in the New Issue of PRATIK
Pratik is an international magazine of contemporary writing edited by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. This issue—Number 3 of Volume 18—includes a dozen Colorado poets: Dan Beachy-Quick Raza Ali Hasan Linda Hogan Joseph Hutchison Mark Irwin David Mason Juan J. Morales Veronica Patterson Pattiann Rogers Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Wendy Videlock Lisa Zimmerman This capacious issue—170 pages—is available online here.Read More
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Rediscovering a Major Colorado Poet
I just finished reading an extraordinary collection of poems by the long-overlooked Colorado poet Belle Turnbull. Certainly no better poems have been written about the lives of people wooed into the mountains by a vision of wealth—from gold, silver, molybdenum, and other elemental substances—and a primal sense of personal liberty. Edited by David J. Rothman, an excellent poet in his own right, and Vonnegut aficionado Jeffrey Villines, this book belongs in the library of every poet and certainly every reader who cares about poetry of the American West.Read More
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Belle Turnbull at the Colorado Creative Industries Summit
I came to this year’s Colorado Creative Industries Summit in Breckenridge with two tasks in mind. One was to represent the new Professional Creative Writing master’s degree program which I’m directing at the University of Denver’s University College. My second task was to welcome attendees of the annual Governor’s Creative Leadership Awards luncheon with a poem. Rather than regale the crowd with a poem of mine, I offered one by a woman who, for my money, is among the three or four best poets Colorado has produced so far.Read More
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Announcing “The Conundrum”
Conundrum Press, which published my collection Thread of the Real, has announced the first issue of The Conundrum—a free, triannual sampler of the phenomenal literature this Colorado-based press publishes.Read More
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Bill Tremblay Reading from Magician’s Hat at BookBar June 7th
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Lois Hayna and the Strangeness of Beauty Perfected
I am thrilled to let everyone know that my friend and fellow poet Lois Hayna has been awarded the Colorado Authors’ League’s first Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations, Lois! I first met Lois when she joined a poetry workshop I taught for now defunct Rocky Mountain Writers Guild back in the mid-1970s.Read More
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Bob Cooperman’s New Website
I just discovered that the inimitable poet Robert (“Bob”) Cooperman now has his own site.Read More
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New Poet Laureate Aaron Anstett
Springs area gets its first poet laureate, Aaron AnstettApril 2, 2008 – 6:20PMBy BILL REED | THE GAZETTE For an area that inspired one of the country’s most beloved poems, “America the Beautiful,” the Pikes Peak region hasn’t paid much tribute to poets — until now. On Wednesday, with Pikes Peak framed behind him, Aaron Anstett was named the region’s first-ever poet laureate in a ceremony at the East Library. [More] Samplings of Aaron Anstett’s poetry can be found here and here.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. 
