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More from Owen Barfield
Here’s another excerpt from Owen Barfield‘s Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning. I’m quoting it in partial answer to a comment posted by Joel Jacobson in reply to my just previous post, asking what I meant by “technological rationalism,” which I had claimed was one of two powerful fundamentalisms at work in America today, the other being “religious unreason”.Read More
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Knotty, Knotty…
Today’s posting on Bill Knott’s blog is a thought-provoking meditation on the turn American poetry has taken toward “spirituality.” Does it serve the right-wing agenda? Does it serve career-minded poets? Does it serve poetry at all? As Knott puts it, in his inimitable way: “Rilkemilky pietistic pap. [The alternative, post-avant elliptical ironity, is no better.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. 
