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Linda Hogan at Abiquiú
Georgia O’Keeffe: Long Pink Hills, 1940, oil on canvas If you saw the C-SPAN interview with the extraordinary Linda Hogan (and even if you missed it), you’ll be interested to know that she’s leading a 5-day workshop called Dwellings: Landscapes of the Heart / Creative Writing from Nature in Abiquiú, New Mexico, October 17-21. Abiquiú is near Ghost Ranch, whose landscapes Georgia O’Keeffe made famous.Read More
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Friday Notebook 07.22.2011
The world is that small spaceyou occupy. The rest is rumor.Be careful where you choose to go.You have freedom, but only thinkyou can live there. Rememberhow you refused that cap and gownget-up to collect your family’s firstcollege degree? How your mother cried?Freedom! And now she’s gone. Somebonds are roots, others—fetters.Freedom can be fetters, too. * After hurricane Rita, this placewas just shredded jungle. Nowit’s Jesús and Lídia’s casa,built by him, by hand, on weekendsand vacations, the way my fatherbuilt our first house.Read More
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Friday Notebook 07.15.2011
Another scanty week for the old notebook. Just a few traces… “This is a world with a new order of disease.” —Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World * The Meteor Between the bars of a reformatory cellan orangecame flying in a flash and fellplop like a stoneinto the johnAnd gazing at itthe prisoner shoneall splattered with shitin a blaze of ecstasyShe hasn’t forgottenShe still thinks of me. —Jacques Prévert, tr. Norman R.Read More
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If You Missed Linda Hogan’s BookTV Interview…
This charming photo is fromLinda’s Web site How did that happen? I told you about it well in advance! But the good news is that you can still watch it online here. It is deeply informative, both for what Linda has to say (always interesting to listen to a far-seeing person) and for the sometimes odd and revealing questions from both the interviewer and the call-in audience. Here’s an example.Read More
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Linda Hogan Interview
I’ve written here before about my friend and fellow poet Linda Hogan. Linda is more of a writer than I am: not just a poet, but a novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, and journalist. Her novel Mean Spirit was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991, and in 1986 she was awarded an American Book Award for her poetry collection Seeing Through the Sun. And now she’s a TV star! Well … maybe that’s an exaggeration. BookTV, however, is scheduled to air a 3-hour in-depth interview with Linda on July 3, beginning at noon Eastern Time.Read More
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Human-Made Poems
Here are three of favorite poets reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival. All of them write what Linh Dinh calls “human-made poems.” Enjoy! More of Linda Hogan on The Perpetual Bird here. More of Taslima Nasreen on The Perpetual Bird here.Read More
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Linda Hogan’s Happy Challenge
Linda Hogan is one of my favorite poets. She’s best known to the wider world as a novelist and essayist, but at heart she’s a poet, and her new poetry collection, Rounding the Human Corners, is a profound gift, especially for someone like me, who considers himself a humanist—although it’s a term that fits less like a glove than a too-small suit. I especially feel the constrictions of my “philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual’s dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason” [Webster’s] when I read a poet like Linda Hogan.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. 
