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Issue 1 of Salamander Cove’s New Series
Annie Wyndham at Salamander Cove has launched a remarkable “Featured Poet Series” with a capacious selection of poems and artwork by Bill Knott. I’m not sure how the poems were chosen, but they echo each other in interesting ways, and Knott’s art—which for me seems to spring from a sensibility similar to that of the great Max Ernst (though without his interest in the figurative)—accompanies but doesn’t comment on the poems. Knott is a juggler of words and colors, of sprung rhythms and wound-tight forms. Annie deserves our thanks for putting his work forward in such a beautiful way.Read More
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Down Along the Cove
Annie Wyndham issues another extraordinary selection of poems at Salamander Cove.Read More
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New Salamander Poems
Annie Wyndham has posted a fresh batch of poems over at Salamander Cove, selected from her reading both on and off line. Fine work by Bob Arnold, Bill Knott, Joel E. Jacobson, John Levy and more.Read More
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An Addendum
L’autoritratto di Montale. 1952. My last Friday Notebook post should have included the following—a translation of Montale‘s famous sunflower poem, occasioned by a request from Conrad DiDiodato for versions of it to be published on his blog. Conrad himself and Annie Wyndham (see here and here) have weighed in as well. I highly recommend that you visit Conrad’s post and contribute your own version, just for fun.Read More
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Down Along the Cove
There’s a wonderful new batch of poems over at Salamander Cove, including some by my friend Joel Jacobson and a few by the inimitable Bill Knott. Excellent editorial work by Cove creator Annie Wyndham.Read More
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Father’s Day Poems
Many thanks to Annie Wyndham over at Salamander Cove for including my poem “Riddles for My Father” in her lovely anthology of Father’s Day poems posted this morning.Read More
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Another New Article in My Series on “The Poem’s Force”
Encouraged by Annie Wyndham’s enthusiasm for my last Poem’s Force article (see my previous post), I finished a new one that had been in slow progress for quite awhile. It deals with the effect of syllabic density on poetic rhythm. You’ll find a link to it on the right hand side of the blog page.Read More
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Real Work
I just want to acknowledge Annie Wyndham for her kind and generous response to my Suite 101 article on the use and abuse of metaphors. Her AmeriQuebeckian “jottings” are always a pleasure to read, and I’m glad she found something of value in what I had to say. I sometimes wonder if these articles (and these blog entries) are worth writing–that is, if what I have to say is worth writing down. It’s good to know that my effort to be of use is occasionally … well … useful.Read More
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More Serendipity… [UPDATED]
By email Annie Wyndham (see her blog here) sent me this link—another instance of serendipity, this time spinning out from my previous post about Talking Gourd South. Asemic writing! Who knew…? Henri Michaux, Narration (excerpt), 1927 UPDATE: Don’t miss the link in William Michaelian’s comment below.Read More
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Salamander Cove
I was out of town and coming down with H1N1 when Annie Wyndham alerted me to the appearance of my poem “Mortality” on her new poetry blog, Salamander Cove (scroll down to her 10/29 post), so I failed to note her kindness in placing it there among so many other find poems.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. 
