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Love Poetry in the Shadow of Pikes Peak – Tuesday, February 7th
Join us for what we promise will be a celebration of love, minus the sacrifices and whippings of the Roman Lupercalia in which the Valentine’s Day tradition is rooted.Read More
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The Sensate Poetry of Jim Ciletti
“Lusting Life” A reading/Performance of Jim Ciletti’s “sensate” poetry. 7 PM — MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014 Colorado College — Palmer, Hall — Gates Common room Jim was the 2010-2012 Pikes Peak Poet Laureate.Read More
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Poetry West Workshop
Thanks to Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Jim Ciletti for his kind words about the workshop I led over the weekend for members of Poetry West, a thriving community-based poetry organization just a couple of years from its 30th anniversary—in itself a testament to the group’s vitality.Read More
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A Blogospheric Welcome to Jim Ciletti
Newly appointed Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Jim Ciletti now has a blog called Poetry Celebrates Life. Jim is both a poet and a mensch.Read More
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Congratulations, Jim Ciletti!
Can it be more than a month now since the good news arrived that Jim Ciletti was named Pikes Peak Poet Laureate? Of course it can, Time being the slippery eel that it is. Luckily news that stays news stays on the Web awhile. See here, for example, and here. I’ve written about Jim’s work before, of course, and I’m hoping his new-found celebrity will result in more of it surfacing in print.Read More
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A Plum in the Fire…
What are we going to do with Jim Ciletti? In his new collection of poems, Sunfire, he writes in an almost old-fashioned way—that is, with emotion. Naked emotion. He can’t put pen to paper unless something, as Auntie Emily would say, has taken the top of his head off. This can make for some sloppy verse—though almost always sloppy in a good way, like eating a big slice of watermelon bare-handed.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. 
