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Being Someone Else
From the Peppercanister chapbook Love, Joy, Peace by one of Ireland’s most amazing poets, Thomas Kinsella: Grace as routine.The lone artificer loosening the charged factsfrom an imagination arguing with itselfuntil the ache is eased—by the will, in tedium;and the ache-object eased in its correctnessout of the containing inexactness. This is ever been the greatest weakness of my practice: no routine. I write when moved to write, avoid prompts and exercises, generally fail to respond to occasions that cry out for such responses (not always, though, as with the BP spill in the Gulf).Read More
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Minus 13
I keep meaning to post these links and keep forgetting. But now that we’re snowed in—or, to be more accurate, frozen in (it’s minus 13 degrees here in Indian Hills as I write)—I have a moment free from “real” work to make the recommendation.Read More
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Deep Water
If you haven’t been following Hannah Stephenson’s extraordinary project at her blog The Storialist, this post is a great place to start. She’s one of those poets—like two of my favorite Toms, Clark and Montag—who has chosen to drop her bucket into the imaginal well every day and share the taste of that water with the rest of us.Read More
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A New Perpetual Birder…
I believe I forgot to mention that Hannah Stephenson recently became a follower of The Perpetual Bird. Hannah is a describer/imaginer/inventor whose work can be found on her blog, The Storialist. Hannah writes near-daily poems based on images she discovers on the Internet. It’s a fascinating project–a testament to both her creativity and her stamina.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. 
