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Emphasis Mine
“[T]he project seemed to hold out, more promisingly than anything I’d embarked on before, a way of bringing forth the few distinct realities I felt to be present inside myself, which is all any writer really has to offer.” —James Lasdun, from “Helen” [The Paris Review, Issue 244/Summer 2023, p. 97], emphasis mine.Read More
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Yuyutsu RD Sharma & Lisa Zimmerman @ Wolverine Farm
All you poetry lovers in the north country of Colorado take note! The “Poet of the Himalayas,” Yuyutsu RD Sharma, will be reading his work at Wolverine Farm in Fort Collins. He will be joined by Lisa Zimmerman, who is one of a dozen Colorado poets featured in the new issue of PRATIK, the international literary journal that Mr. Sharma edits. The reading kicks off at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 2nd.Read More
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A New Interview Published in Compulsive Reader
Thanks by my friend and fellow poet Ed McManis for thinking to interview me in the first place and then deciding to let me run my mouth for so long. Many thanks as well to poet, novelist, radio personality, and proprietress of Compulsive Reader, Magdalena Ball, for publishing this interview from her home base in New South Wales, Australia. You can read the full interview here.Read More
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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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New Poem in a New Journal
I’m very excited to have one of my Mexico poems, a prose poem, in the inaugural issue of The Berlin Review. If I ever get to do an expanded version of Eyes of the Cuervo/Ojos del Crow, I’ll be sure to include this poem.Read More
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Two New Poems in Heimat Review
See https://heimatreview.weebly.com/issue-2-winter.html Heimat Review is a well-curated, beautifully designed new online journal.Read More
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Adventures in Reading 2022
PART ONE: DISTRACTION AND ENCHANTMENT 2022 was unkind to my habit of reading lots of books. Partly my paid work was to blame: growing pains (which I am too old for) of the professional kind. Then there was the several weeks I wasted on Thomas Mann‘s Doctor Faustus, which I had to abandon. What drudgery! What a distraction! I’d read and admired a number of Mann’s short stories, but Doctor Faustus struck me as all posturing, a ponderous performance with no point in sight, almost every moment of it arriving via second- or third-hand reports about Mann’s fictional, Schoenbergian composer, Adrian Leverkühn.Read More
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BRISTLECONE July 2022 is Live!
Here’s the link to the July 2022 issue of Bristlecone.Read More
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Good Ink from Westword about Bristlecone
Click here for the full Westword article. | Click here to read Bristlecone. Note as well that the photo credit should read: Melody Madonna.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. 
