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PoemFest “Good Medicine” Reading—**Updated with Link**
I’ll be one of 30 poets reading “good medicine” poems at the 2021 virtual PoemFest celebration via Zoom from 4:30-6:30 Mountain Time. Poets include: Juliana Aragon Fatula, Esther G. Belin, Debbi Brody, Nathan Brown, Julie Cummings, Lawton Eddy, Barbara Ford, Art Goodtimes, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Laurie V. James, Kate Kingston, Lynda LaRocca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Don McIver, Anne MacNaughton, Tori Miner, Juan Morales, Craig Nielson, William Pitt Root, Danny Rosen, David Rothman, Susan Tichy, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney, Pam Ushuk, Wendy Videlock, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Gary Worth Moody.Read More
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Let’s Have Some Fun in Crestone!
I’m excited to be joining so many fantastic poets in Crestone! The full festival runs Thursday through Sunday, February 21-24. Work commitments are keeping me from basking in the entire event and the many tantalizing workshops on offer. My particular workshop, on Saturday, February 23, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., is called The Music of What Happens: Exploring Soundscape. Here’s the description: The music that makes poems memorable springs from the interaction of cadences and the rise and fall of syllable sounds.Read More
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Adios, Bob (Robert Wendell) King
We lost one of the Colorado’s finest poets this past Friday. Bob King passed away after a long struggle with cancer. I can’t say enough about Bob’s fine writing, his generosity and humanity, his feeling for the sacred in nature, and his fundamental honesty.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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A Luminous Night and the Following Day
I had the enormous pleasure of reading at Lithic Bookstore/Gallery and Press in Fruita, Colorado, a few miles from the Colorado/Utah border. Hosted by the owners, Danny Rosen and Kyle Harvey, both considerable poets in their own write, the reading was not only well attended but lively, various, and fundamentally joyful. In addition to reading with Danny and Kyle, there were the extraordinary Jack Mueller, Jennifer Rane Hancock, Sandra Dorr, and Frank H. Coons. I also got to meet—finally, after years of being a fan—poet and visual artist Wendy Videlock.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. 
