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Poetry 2014 at BookBar
I started organizing First Saturday Poetry Readings at BookBar, a thriving indie bookstore in Northwest Denver, back in April 2014, and as the year nears its end I thought it would be useful to list everyone who has participated so far. Saturday, April 5: Andrea Hollander, reading from Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982–2012; Robert Cooperman, reading from Just Drive; and me myself, reading from the paperback reissue of Bed of Coals. Saturday, May 2: David Mason, then Poet Laureate of Colorado, and Chris Ransick, erstwhile Poet Laureate of Denver, in a Laureate Smackdown.Read More
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Anticipation
Here’s an excerpt from Daniel Nathan Terry‘s insightful review of Pam Uschuk’s new poetry collection. It’s the kind of review any poet might envy, not because it praises, but because it praises in a grounded way. No recourse here to Theory—just the articulate response of an intelligent reader to a kind of poetry The Poetry of Necessity: Pam Uschuk’s Wild in the Plaza of Memory Wild in the Plaza of Memory lives up to its title. With these poems, Uschuk has opened a public space where all things, all encounters—both beautiful and dreadful—are not only possible, they are inevitable.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. 
