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New Poem in a New Journal
I’m very excited to have one of my Mexico poems, a prose poem, in the inaugural issue of The Berlin Review. If I ever get to do an expanded version of Eyes of the Cuervo/Ojos del Crow, I’ll be sure to include this poem.Read More
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Encountering a Poet Workshops—Mark Your Calendar!
Mark your calendar! Workshops on the work of Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda, and E. E. Cummings. Presenters will be Lynn Kincanon, Joseph Hutchison (Moi), Evan Oakley, and Marj Hahne. Kudos to the Loveland Public Library and Loveland Poet Laureate Program for such an exciting series! Registration is required at lovlib.org/events.Read More
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Step into The Magic Rectangle
I suggest that you devote some of that holiday cash the Jolly Old Elf put in your stocking and snag a copy of my friend Sandy McRae’s extraordinary new book of prose poems from one of our premier indie publishers, Folded Word. You’ll thank yourself when fangs of ice are hanging from your gutters because you’ll be inside, warming yourself at the fire of Sandy’s crackling wit. Note the caveat below, however: the first edition is already running low! So take my advice and don’t wait until the glittering ball drops in Times Square….Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Louis Jenkins
THE POET He is young and thin with dark hair and a deep, serious voice. He sips his coffee and says, “I have found that it is a good idea to check the words you use in a dictionary. I keep a list. Here is the word meadow. Since I was a child the word meadow always had connotations of peace and beauty. Once I used meadow in a poem and as a matter of practice I looked the word up. I found that a meadow was a small piece of grassland used to graze animals….Read More
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A Prose Poem by Carl Sagan
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Skeptic Pens Prose Poem
Professional skeptic Michael Shermer’s 100th column in Scientific American is a terrific piece, partly because it contains—in addition to his usual dose of clear thinking and deft handling of Big Ideas—this passage that amounts to a prose poem. It must be true — I saw it on television, at the movies, on the Internet. The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, That’s Incredible, The Sixth Sense, Poltergeist, Loose Change, Zeitgeist the Movie. Mysteries, magic, myths and monsters. The occult and the supernatural. Conspiracies and cabals. The face on Mars and aliens on Earth. Bigfoot and Loch Ness. ESP and PSI.Read More
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Closed Histories
I’m too harried with work to write a thorough review of Sara Veglahn’s extraordinary chapbook Closed Histories, but I want to take a moment to recommend it. To the extent that comparisons are useful in describing a distinctive new voice, I would say that her work has similarities to writers as diverse as Karen Volkman, Yves Bonnefoy, Samuel Beckett, Henri Michaux, and the Gertrude Stein of Tender Buttons. Needless to say, I hope, these associations are subjective, and Ms. Veglahn herself might disavow them all! So I should let her speak for herself, if briefly: From the window, light.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. 
