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Adios, Gore Vidal
I have a soft spot for curmudgeons, especially when their disaffection with things as they are provide real insight into why things are the way they are. Gore Vidal was one of those—a brilliant, articulate, savage man whose honesty so many people found offensive. Not that he didn’t relish giving offense: he did, but he did so almost always with intelligence and wit. In the wake of his death, the Web is already awash in Vidal quotes, some accurate, some not. The way of the world, as he well knew.Read More
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A Taste of Róbert Gál’s Signs & Symptoms
I discovered Róbert Gál through the anthology New European Poets, edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, and bought his Signs & Symptoms because of what I’d read there. I don’t know if Gál is, in fact, a poet; he is certainly an aphorist, but he comes at the practice, it seems to me, with a philosopher’s spirit, not a poet’s. I don’t know if I can be clear about that distinction, but let me give it a try.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. 
