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James Wright: A Life in Poetry
I just finished Jonathan Blunk‘s powerfully moving biography, James Wright: A Life in Poetry. It is everything a great biography should be: a delicate balance between passing time and the abiding genius that seems to irrupt from a region outside of time. Given his family background, Wright was a person who should never have fallen in love with language, but thanks to some sensitive and insightful early teachers, he did, and so we have the opportunity when we read him to fall in love with it in poem after poem.Read More
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Words of Mouth
[Thanks to Ron Silliman for posting this link on this blog] Nick Laird on the Physicality of Language You should put that in a poem. A thing to say to the people who write poems; the offering of some strange coincidence or anecdote. Poets, if they’re like me, sip their drink and agree, privately certain it won’t give rise to anything at all. You can make fiction and drama from reported stories, from hearsay and incident, but not poetry.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. 
