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Transatlantic Poetry with David Mason and Gerry Cambridge
David Mason here, reading from his wonderful new book Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, followed by the extraordinary Gerry Cambridge, Scottish poet and editor of the journal The Dark Horse.Read More
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More on Exile
Apropos of Roberto Bolaño’s speech on the subject of exile, which I mentioned in an earlier post, I recommend a visit to Jerome Rothenberg’s recent post presenting a selection of luminous “detached sentences” on the same subject by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Why, I wonder, did Finlay want to avoid calling these aphorisms? Maybe it’s just too pigeonholing a term.Read More
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Homage to Edwin Morgan
Poppy & Me No kidding: I was sitting there reading and listening to “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song” by the just-passed-on Scottish bard Edwin Morgan when I noticed that Poppy, our Min-Pin Chihuahua, was staring wide-eyed at my laptop. She tilted her head this way and that through the entire performance, like any attentive listener at a poetry reading.Read More
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No “N” in the Middle
I picked up Alexander Hutchison’s collection Scales Dog because I saw he’d spent time in the seventies living and working on Vancouver Island. From 1972-1974 I was across the Georgia Strait from that island, studying with the incomparable George McWhirter in the University of British Columbia’s MFA program. And my last name, like this poet’s, proudly goes forth into the world with no “n” in the middle.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. 
