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Poetry Month 2016: David Giannini
[For those of you who may have wondered what happened to the April 18th post, the auto-post feature evidently conflicted with some kind of Wordpress update and failed to post. It appears below.Read More
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Poetry Month 2016: Janine Pommy Vega
Four Days Before Rumi Died for the Harvest Moon Collective, in memory of Fielding Dawson I could travel around the world sending you postcards: Nope. These people are not as free as you, either, but the law does not allow postcards. I could call you from across the country: I had a dream! You were in it! but there is no phone line to a bank of cells, just the telegram of a sixth sense set precisely in the present.Read More
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As We Cover the Streets
A still from “As We Cover the Streets”—Janine Pommy Vega weaving together her egg shaker’ssimple rhythm and the complex music of her voice. Thanks to Bob Arnold at Longhouse Birdhouse for linking to this fine, uplifting tribute to Janine Pommy Vega, for whose estate Bob serves as literary executor.Read More
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Adios, Janine Pommy Vega
The extraordinary Janine Pommy Vega passed away two days ago—a loss for her family and friends and a loss for American poetry. Here are a couple of her poems, the first written in 1996 and the second in 2000, both published in The Green Piano: Christmas at Woodbourne Sodden cardboard mangerat the front gateto Woodbourne Prisonshrouded hills, lone gull’sscreech stop the searchlight Who says we are separatefrom what we love?Ramakrishnawould call that ignoranceSeparate voices, separate troubles, separate cells—connectedness isinseparablefrom the consistencyof grace.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. 
