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What Age is Worth
Years ago I discovered Ausonius in Helen Waddell‘s wonderful book The Wandering Scholars. (See the first part of my earlier post.) Although I took three semesters of Latin in high school, I promptly forgot most of it, and so my effort to translate the Ausonius epigram below relied on a Latin dictionary and a Loeb Library translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White.Read More
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Ovid’s Amores, 1:5 A hot afternoon: siesta-time. Exhausted, I lay sprawled across my bed.One window-shutter was closed, the other stood half-open, And the light came sifting throughAs it does in a wood. It recalled that crepuscular glow at sunset Or the trembling moment between darkness and dawn,Just right for a modest girl whose delicate bashfulness Needs some camouflage.Read More
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Robert Fagles’ Last Translation
“Robert Fagles, the renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil were unlikely best sellers and became fixtures on classroom reading lists, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J., where he was an emeritus professor at Princeton University.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. 
