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From a Rocking Boat…
A few weeks back I realized that by the end of 2012 I would be putting up my one-thousandth post on The Perpetual Bird. And here it is—saved for New Year’s Eve! I’ve noodled over it for days with the intention, as always, to offer something interesting, provocative, insightful, and/or unusual.Read More
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The Stuff By Which We Live
Harry (Heinrich) Heine A quote here from Max Brod‘s biography of Harry (better known as Heinrich) Heine, Heine: The Artist in Revolt. It has about it the very strangeness that makes Heine, for me, more rewarding to read than the currently influential Friedrich Hölderlin: Now that I come to discuss [Heine’s] masterpieces it is no more than fitting that I should make due acknowledgment of the way in which he trampled over every inner and outer barrier and crushed all difficulties.Read More
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Against Exceptionalism
The Root of All Evil Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way. —Friedrich Hölderlinfrom Hyperion and Selected Poems, trans.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. 
