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The Under Sleep’s New Moon Launch (pix & video)
Gathered Around the Fire in the BookBar Garden (https://www.bookbardenver.com/): A histrionic moment: Lexicomania (and All that Jazz) for Joe Nigg We labor with language, our pointed wits flashing like sewing needles in a sweatshop. But it’s no sweat. We like it. It keeps us keen and intensely busy. Of course, it’s not the cloth—which fits or doesn’t, lasts or frays, flows out in patterns already dated or slavishly in fashion—no, not the cloth, but the cadence.Read More
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Does This Mean I’ve Arrived?
My friend, the excellent poet David Giannini, let me know this morning that my new collection, Under Sleep’s New Moon, has squeaked onto the Small Press Distribution poetry best sellers list for September.Read More
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Book Launch Poster—Nice!
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Under Sleep’s New Moon Is About to Arrive…
I’m excited to be launching my new collection of poems, Under Sleep’s New Moon, at one of Denver’s premier indie bookstores, BookBar. The launch is happening on Saturday, October 9, from 7:00–8:00 p.m. BookBar is asking attendees to register ahead of time: see details here. The plan is to hold the reading outside on BookBar’s spacious patio.Read More
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New Book Sneak Peek
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From My New Book
My poem ” Black Willow” appears in the December 2020 issue of O:JA&L (Open: Journal of Arts & Letters). You can also find it in my new book, Under Sleep’s New Moon, forthcoming July 1 from NYQ Books. NYQ published The World As Is: New & Selected Poems in 2016. O:JA&L is one of those gorgeous journals that would be impossible to produce in print unless you were a billionaire.Read More
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Let the Goodtimes Roll
I’m excited by the prospect of a new collection of poems from Art Goodtimes, Dancing on Edge: The McRedeye Poems.Read More
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Now That I’m a “Must-Read” Author…
No, I am not kidding.Westword newspaper, “Denver’s independent source of local news and culture,” included in me in a piece called “The Write Stuff: Ten Must-Read Colorado Authors.” A real honor!I do, however, feel bound to note an error and one omission. The omission is the name of the photographer who caught me in a moment of especially high energy: Amanda Tipton.Read More
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Join Me & Other Denver Area Authors
Click here for complete details (you’ll need to scroll down after you land).Read More
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Tiny Houses Spacious as Mansions
As with my previous Peter Handke post, I’m sharing enough of this remarkable collection by Samuel Menashe to give a sense of his work without giving away too much. I first encountered Menashe several years ago, when I volunteered to record books for the Colorado Talking Book Library. My first assignment was unenviable: a rather standard textbook focused on reading and interpreting poetry.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. 
