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Adventures in Reading 2018
Old Reading Room at BookBar (Photo: Tricia M.) Let me admit up front that I’ve included half a dozen books here that were read as part of my work with the Professional Creative Writing program at University College. But they all turned out to be worthwhile reading experiences. Even those I couldn’t quite connect with—Juan Gelman’s The Poems of Sidney West, Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw, and Adonis’s powerful Concerto al-Quds, which is also recondite and nakedly anguished by turns—continue to haunt me. This is usually an early indicator of re-readings in the offing.Read More
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Poetry Month 2017: Jaime Luis Huenún
TWO POEMS from PORT TRAKL I got off in the fog of Port Trakl, searching for the bar of good fortune to chat about my trip. But everyone stared at the polar stare in their drinks, silent like the sea off a desert island. I went out to roam the red lit streets. Perfumed and bored women, selling their tired bodies. “In Port Trakl poets come to die” they said, smiling in all the languages of the world. I gave them poems I planned to take to my grave as proof of my time on Earth.Read More
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My Year in Books (2016)
As I did at the end of 2015, I’m laying out my past year’s book reading in the spirit of sharing the often haphazard journey of mind and heart that is my chief solitary pleasure. (There are other pleasures, of course, not solitary at all, but they don’t involve this particular addiction.) Again, the books listed below are ordered according to when I read them. I won’t comment on all of these titles because all of them are well worth reading.Read More
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Raúl Zurita Reading on May 9th
Please join the Department of English and the Creative Writing program at the University of Denver to hear internationally renowned poet Raúl Zurita. When: Monday, May 9th / 7 p.m. Where: The University of Denver Sturm Hall / Room 454 Free and open to the public Raúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets. After Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 US-supported military coup that ousted Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government, Zurita’s poetry sought to register the violence and atrocities committed against the Chilean people and the corruption of the Spanish language.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. 
