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Legions of the Sun—Now Available
The companion anthology to “War of Words” is now available.Read More
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The Drama of War-Time Poetry
The performance of “War of Words” went off without a hitch last night in the Black Box Theater at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Having written the script, I was surprised by how moving it was—how the century-old poems sprang to life with such power and subtlety from the mouths of the five actors. Among the many enlivening elements were smoothly delivered accents—Hardy’s Dorset English, Apollinaire’s bon vivant playfulness, the taut Germanic sounds of Trakl, and the sly Chicagoan cadences of Carl Sandburg.Read More
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Digging into The Gravedigger’s Roots
I’ve read only three ebooks in my life, though there are number in my iPad’s Kindle queue. One was Richard Paul Roe’s wonderful The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard’s Unknown Travels; a second was Haiku 1.0 by Joaquín Iborra Mateo, a bilingual edition whose English versions don’t quite rise to the level of the originals; and most recently, Robert S. King‘s The Gravedigger’s Roots, which I want to say a few words about here.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. 
