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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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D. A. Powell Responds to Occupy Wall Street
THE GREAT UNRESTby D. A. Powell When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. (Job 7:4) You’d think, bedraggled as I am by the illness of my age,I’d be able to lounge a little. That I’d shut out the noise, as others do,and I would sigh and sleep. Let me eat Tootsie Pops, I’d think. Let me lay in the moonlightand grow the opposite of babyfat. Lie, I mean. Let me lie. I have had to wrestle with grammarall my life.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. 
