-
Cid Corman Reads William Carlos Williams
Cid Corman was a fine poet in his own write, but he was also a great and essentially selfless promoter of other poets, not just through his editorship of Origin magazine (founded in 1951), but through his many translations and his quirky, insightful essay on poets and poetry. What’s more, in 1949 Corman co-founded America’s first poetry radio program, This Is Poetry, at WMEX (1510 kc.) in Boston.Read More
-
By the Light of a Page (Updated)
This review appeared in the January/February 2009 Issue of The Bloomsbury Review. ©2009 by Joseph Hutchison. NOTE: A correction and some additional information has been appended to this post as of 01/21/09. The Next One Thousand Years: The Selected Poems of Cid Corman By Cid Corman Edited by Ce Rosenow and Bob Arnold 207 pages, paper ISBN-13: 978-1-929048-08-3 ISBN-10: 1-929048-08-4 Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers 1604 River Road Guilford, VT 05301 All strong poets ground their work in their own “significant tradition”: an idiosyncratic, even contrarian view of what really matters in the history of their art.Read More
-
More On Cid Corman
Elsewhere on this blog I noted the publication of The Next One Thousand Years, Selected Poems of Cid Corman. Here you’ll find more information about Corman, and about the other efforts by his Selected’s co-editor Bob Arnold toward preserving Corman’s legacy. In this effort, Bob Arnold is carrying on a historic tradition of dedicated lovers of fine literature who labor—without institutional sinecure or monetary reward—to ensure that the work of neglected writers survives long enough to find the wider audience it deserves.Read More
-
A Welcome New Selection of Cid Corman’s Poetry
Longhouse Publishers is about to release an important new selection of poems by the prolific Cid Corman, who passed away in 2004. The Next One Thousand Years, Selected Poems of Cid Corman is edited Ce Rosenow and Bob Arnold, have done a beautiful job of gathering poems that represent the prolific Corman at his best—and at his best, Corman produced powerful, sleek, transparent poems that make us feel we’re witnessing fresh realizations as they come into being.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. 
