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A Free Online Reading of Poems in Remembrance of the Holocaust: January 27th
On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time, the Colorado Poets Center (CPC) and Judyth Hill are hosting a Poetry Reading entitled Poems in Remembrance of the Holocaust. The following Colorado Poets Center poets will be reading: Judyth Hill, David Rothman, Art Goodtimes, Gail BenEzra, Lynda La Rocca, Carol Guerrero-Murphy, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Robert Cooperman, and Natalie Giarratano. You must register for the reading in advance through this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Atpf_ P5DSG2DVUGebUuzoQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the email containing information about joining the webinar.Read More
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PoemFest “Good Medicine” Reading—**Updated with Link**
I’ll be one of 30 poets reading “good medicine” poems at the 2021 virtual PoemFest celebration via Zoom from 4:30-6:30 Mountain Time. Poets include: Juliana Aragon Fatula, Esther G. Belin, Debbi Brody, Nathan Brown, Julie Cummings, Lawton Eddy, Barbara Ford, Art Goodtimes, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Laurie V. James, Kate Kingston, Lynda LaRocca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Don McIver, Anne MacNaughton, Tori Miner, Juan Morales, Craig Nielson, William Pitt Root, Danny Rosen, David Rothman, Susan Tichy, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney, Pam Ushuk, Wendy Videlock, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Gary Worth Moody.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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Looking Forward to Poetry Month 2016
An early heads up: the venerable Stories on Stage will be presenting an excerpt from my long historical poem “A Marked Man” in April 2016. The poem, of course, from my collection Marked Men. Sam Gregory, a high-energy actor whose work I saw at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts when he played (brilliantly) Vanya in Vanya and Masha and Sonia and Spike, will perform it.Read More
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Poetry 2014 at BookBar
I started organizing First Saturday Poetry Readings at BookBar, a thriving indie bookstore in Northwest Denver, back in April 2014, and as the year nears its end I thought it would be useful to list everyone who has participated so far. Saturday, April 5: Andrea Hollander, reading from Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982–2012; Robert Cooperman, reading from Just Drive; and me myself, reading from the paperback reissue of Bed of Coals. Saturday, May 2: David Mason, then Poet Laureate of Colorado, and Chris Ransick, erstwhile Poet Laureate of Denver, in a Laureate Smackdown.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. 
