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Join Us for a PRATIK Launch Reading
I’m excited to be joining Yuyutsu RD Sharma, poet of the Himalayas, for the launch of the hot-off-the-press issue of PRATIK. I hope you’ll join us! Yuyutsu is a renowned poet from Nepal who has performed his work for audiences around the world. He is also the editor of PRATIK, a literary journal that has featured poets from dozens of countries, including Ireland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, and of course Nepal. Poets representing more discrete communities—from Los Angeles and Ottowa to the Basque region of Spain—have also appeared in its pages.Read More
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Colorado Poets in the New Issue of PRATIK
Pratik is an international magazine of contemporary writing edited by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. This issue—Number 3 of Volume 18—includes a dozen Colorado poets: Dan Beachy-Quick Raza Ali Hasan Linda Hogan Joseph Hutchison Mark Irwin David Mason Juan J. Morales Veronica Patterson Pattiann Rogers Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Wendy Videlock Lisa Zimmerman This capacious issue—170 pages—is available online here.Read More
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In Case You Missed It…
Here is a link to the Loveland Poet Laureate Reading last night featuring yours truly and the extraordinary Lisa Zimmerman. I believe a good time was had by all! ~~~~ P.S. Here’s the first online review of the reading: https://secondlettersalon.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-review-of-moons-and-saints.html.Read More
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Adventures in Reading 2018
Old Reading Room at BookBar (Photo: Tricia M.) Let me admit up front that I’ve included half a dozen books here that were read as part of my work with the Professional Creative Writing program at University College. But they all turned out to be worthwhile reading experiences. Even those I couldn’t quite connect with—Juan Gelman’s The Poems of Sidney West, Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw, and Adonis’s powerful Concerto al-Quds, which is also recondite and nakedly anguished by turns—continue to haunt me. This is usually an early indicator of re-readings in the offing.Read More
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Lovelandia
I want to thank the good people of the Loveland Public Library, Columbine Poets, and the Loveland Museum/Gallery for producing a rather large crowd for this past Friday’s reading and the workshop next morning. Since Gov. Hickenlooper whacked me with his gubernatorial wand and transmogrified me from an ink-stained wretch into a laureate, I’ve done more such events than I did in the ten years previous, and I have to say that this audience was one of the most engaged I’ve ever come across.Read More
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Me and My Betters…
Join me and a number of my betters—Veronica Patterson, Bob King, and sundry others—for a free reading at the Loveland Public Library at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 21st. And/or come to the free poetry workshop the next morning, Saturday, August 22nd, from 10 a.m. to noon.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Auraria Writers Week
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Riding the Airwaves with Veronica Patterson
This Sunday, January 18th, Veronica Patterson will be reading her work on The Poetry Show, 6:00 p.m. on 88.9 FM, hosted by Susie Martinez. The program can also be streamed through the Web site at http://www.krfcfm.org/.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. 
