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Vazambam!
I don’t know how many of you follow the venerable blog of Vassilis Zambaras, named Vazambam, but it’s well worth your time. (More information about Vassilis than he probably wishes he’d allowed into print is available here.) His post today is an unusually large gathering of recent poems, a sequence that I find especially lovely.Read More
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Being Someone Else
From the Peppercanister chapbook Love, Joy, Peace by one of Ireland’s most amazing poets, Thomas Kinsella: Grace as routine.The lone artificer loosening the charged factsfrom an imagination arguing with itselfuntil the ache is eased—by the will, in tedium;and the ache-object eased in its correctnessout of the containing inexactness. This is ever been the greatest weakness of my practice: no routine. I write when moved to write, avoid prompts and exercises, generally fail to respond to occasions that cry out for such responses (not always, though, as with the BP spill in the Gulf).Read More
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Vazambam’s Traces
Vassils Zambaras has been posting flights from an extraordinary sequence called Traces.Read More
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A Murder of Crows and Ravens
From a Swaying Hammock With a raw squawk the raven breakshis glide and alights on a pine’s spring-like branch.Read More
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The Cure at Meligalas
I’m heartily recommending these extraordinary poems by Vassilis Zambaras, who is writing at the top of his game.Read More
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Postcard to Vazambam
—for Vassilis Zambaras Vassilis, I mean no slight, saying you write lightverse. I mean, of course, your light touch, bright-ening glance and grin as you knife a jolt oflightning into the heart’s dark.Read More
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I Plan to Make A Bookmark of This Poem
Congratulations to the inimitable Vassilis Zambaras on the acceptance of this wonderful poem in what promises to be a rich anthology of work about Williams.Read More
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The School of Queeritude (If You Have to Ask How Much Tuition Is—You Can’t Afford It)
Please don’t miss this delicious response by Vassilis Zambaras to my previous post.Read More
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By the Light of Owen Barfield
In response to an earlier post on this blog, Vassilis Zambaras posted a comment in which he quoted from Owen Barfield‘s classic Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning. I had read the book early in my twenties and frankly was too callow, both as a reader and a writer, to grasp the fullness of Barfield’s insights. Vassilis’s comment sent me back to the book, though, and I’ve been discovering just how much I missed the first time through.Read More
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A Gift from Vassilis Zambaras
A few days ago I visited poet Vassilis Zambaras‘s blog and found this lovely poem posted, and commented on it (you can see my comment below the post). That comment led Vassilis to write and post this poem. What a gift! Thanks, Vassilis….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. 
