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Adventures in Reading 2021
It was another pandemic year, in some ways more challenging than the first. There was a sense of fraying in the fabric of social life, work life, personal focus (my poetry journal full of fragments that I’m not postmodern enough to throw down on pages and pretend that they cohere as poems), the persistent floating anxiety. Among the various costumes that relief arrived in were books, of course.Read More
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Eleanor Goodman in Conversation with Teow Lim Goh
Here is an excellent interview with poet and translator Eleanor Goodman by the fine young poet Teow Lim Goh. I blogged about Ms. Goodman back in September, when she came to the University of Denver to speak and read from her Chinese translations under the auspices of the Professional Creative Writing Program, and when she read (the following evening) at BookBar. The journal Teow’s interview appears in, Canopy, is new to me, but I expect to spend some pleasurable time fishing around in the depths of it.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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Don’t Miss This Weekend’s BookBar Poetry Reading
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. 
