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Adventures in Reading 2022
PART ONE: DISTRACTION AND ENCHANTMENT 2022 was unkind to my habit of reading lots of books. Partly my paid work was to blame: growing pains (which I am too old for) of the professional kind. Then there was the several weeks I wasted on Thomas Mann‘s Doctor Faustus, which I had to abandon. What drudgery! What a distraction! I’d read and admired a number of Mann’s short stories, but Doctor Faustus struck me as all posturing, a ponderous performance with no point in sight, almost every moment of it arriving via second- or third-hand reports about Mann’s fictional, Schoenbergian composer, Adrian Leverkühn.Read More
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A Backward Glance O’er National Poetry Month
Phantom in the early 1800s poets walked for days talking to each other pouring significance into the names of what they say lake sky nightingale mountain forest grasses darkness ether gold sea saying them now I sense natural power and how it must have felt to place them so exactly a spell that worked now they hardly mean anything or too much one word always quietly resisted light on water it just reflected everything that tried to make it more than what it was it hasn’t really changed since it was said by the Greeks and even now when it’s…Read More
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My Year in Books (2017)
This year’s list is longer than usual, in part because I created two literature courses for the Professional Creative Writing program I direct at D.U.’s University College, a process that entailed lots of reading.Read More
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The Rattling Wall
I feel honored to see my poem “Riddles for my Father” in the inaugural issue of The Rattling Wall (Spring 2011), flanked by Don Winslow‘s funny, hipsteresque story “Colfax” (about a book tour that ends “in a store on Colfax Avenue in Denver”—I’m guessing The Tattered Cover) and three new poems by Matthew Zapruder, one of which (“Poem for England”) includes these affecting lines: let us turn back to the booknow we are just touching its pageseveryone in it died a long time agotrying to get home Thanks to Founding Editor Michelle Meyering, who is also Director of Programs and…Read More
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Dying Enough
Eugen Jebeleanu(Drawing by Jesper Deleuran) Night by Eugen Jebeleanu, from Secret Weapon (tr.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. 
