-
Encountering a Poet Workshops—Mark Your Calendar!
Mark your calendar! Workshops on the work of Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda, and E. E. Cummings. Presenters will be Lynn Kincanon, Joseph Hutchison (Moi), Evan Oakley, and Marj Hahne. Kudos to the Loveland Public Library and Loveland Poet Laureate Program for such an exciting series! Registration is required at lovlib.org/events.Read More
-
Legions of the Sun—Now Available
The companion anthology to “War of Words” is now available.Read More
-
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
-
Patriot Games
“next to of course god america ilove you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth ohsay can you see by the dawn’s early mycountry ’tis of centuries come and goand are no more what of it we should worryin every language even deafanddumbthy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorryby jingo by gee by gosh by gumwhy talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy deadwho rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterthey did not stop to think they died insteadthen shall the voice of liberty be mute?” He spoke.Read More
-
On Baker’s Stone Girl E-Pic
I’ve been struggling—let me admit it—to find a way to write about Ed Baker’s Stone Girl E-Pic. It’s a 515-page poetic adventure, the reading of which is like watching sparks thrown off by a fire: the fire’s below the rim of the firepit, so you can’t see it directly, but the climbing sparks, the waves of light and heat under a skyful of stars—this is the sensation Stone Girl produces.Read More
-
Hello, New Birders
A hearty howdy to three new Perpetual Birders. One is a current student of mine and budding poet, Lacey Bodensteiner. I look forward to her comments here! Then there is Mark Brooks, creator of the highly (hai-li?) energetic online haiku publication haijinx. Mark has been very smart about using social media (haijinx is on both Twitter and Facebook); even better, he’s been smart about the work he presents at haijinx. Give it a look! Finally, for this round at least, there is Richard from Blackhawk, South Dakota.Read More
-
Big Poetry Giveaway 2011
In celebration of National Poetry Month … well, let me set that aside. Much of my income derives from creating promotional campaigns, so I’m more or less immune to this annual public relations event. My participation in this particular event is meant to honor the generous initiative cooked up by Kelly Russell Agodon more than it is to promote poetry in general. (Is there such as thing as “poetry in general”?) It also gives me an excuse to share some of my favorite poetry—and some of my own, which is not the same thing—with two lucky Perpetual Birders.Read More
-
The Further Adventures of Bill Knott
NOTE: This review appeared in the July/August 2008 Issue of The Bloomsbury Review. ©2008 by Joseph Hutchison. Stigmata Errata EtceteraPoems by Bill Knott Collages by Star Black Introduction by Mark Doty 68 pages, paper ISBN: 0-9754990-4-1 Saturnalia Books 13 E. Highland Avenue, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19118 Some poets adopt the artistic assumptions of their historical moment and achieve significance by discovering new subtleties in the existing modes or by extending the range of content those modes can accommodate.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. 
