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Adventures in Reading 2021
It was another pandemic year, in some ways more challenging than the first. There was a sense of fraying in the fabric of social life, work life, personal focus (my poetry journal full of fragments that I’m not postmodern enough to throw down on pages and pretend that they cohere as poems), the persistent floating anxiety. Among the various costumes that relief arrived in were books, of course.Read More
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Free Poetry Event with Valzhyna Mort
Good international poetry news! In the UK, The Poetry Society and the University of Liverpool are offering a free Zoom event: a lecture by the extraordinary Belarusian poet and translator Valzhyna Mort. (Lecture details here.) Her third collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, bowled me over when I read it last month; you can read a short review of it here, but it can’t do justice to Mort’s powerful, complex work.Read More
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Friday Notebook 01.20.12
Driving a dark, wind-buffeted valley road last night, an idea came to me. One of those proliferation moments, like time-lapse of a sunflower unfolding. By the time I got to a place where I could scribble the following notes, though, the moment was gone. The traces of it are here, in these words, which now have the look of sea wrack on a beach. Nevertheless: The idea that no creature possesses consciousness. There is only an ability to process and display consciousness.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. 
