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Get Lit! in Trinidad … on the Historic Santa Fe Trail
I’m very much looking forward to The Fifth Annual Corazón de Trinidad Literary Festival! I’ll be joining some terrific writers for readings and workshops, including PW Covington, Kate Kingston, Kathryn Winograd, Aaron Abeyta, Ginna Pollack & Senora Banana, Lindy Simmons, SETH, Michele Battiste, and the inimitable Art Goodtimes. Join us for all or part of this 3-day event.Read More
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Rattle Poetry Finalist Wendy Videlock
OF YOU You’ve been the wolf, you’ve been the bear… [and the rest you can read … well, you know where: https://www.rattle.com/of-you-by-wendy-videlock/] Small wonder she’s the current Western Slope Poet Laureate.Read More
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President Obama’s Open Letter to Librarians
Barack speaking out against the suppression of ideas.Read More
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Fran Drescher Tells It Like It Is
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Kwame Dawes on “Voice and Responsibility in Poetry”—FREE
This talk will air live at 12pm ET (9am PT / 5pm BST) on Wednesday, June 21st. You are welcome to sign up to attend live or to get a free copy of the recording. Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Nebraska (UNP, 2019), Bivouac (Akashic Books, 2019), and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017). Speak from Here to There (Peepal Tree Press), co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.Read More
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Sign Here to Support PEN in Opposing Book Bans
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Check Out This Podcast Interview and Reading
Last summer an American fiction writer living in the UK, Yvonne Battle-Felton, invited me to her podcast—called Bookable Space—for an interview and reading from Under Sleep’s New Moon. (To read a review of Ms. Battle-Felton’s debut novel, Remembered, click here.) Our conversation was great fun, and I’m happy to share it with you.Read More
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A Free Reading Celebrating the New Issue of THINK Journal
Join me and several other THINK contributors for a free Zoom reading, kindly hosted by Brandeis University: THINK Journal Summer/Fall 2022 Issue Launch November 2, 2022 6 PM MT / 8 PM ET Request a link to the reading here: editor@thinkjournal.org I hope you’ll be able to join us for this hour-long event! TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese…Read More
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Poetry of Stanley Moss (a 199-word review + samples)
There is no pleasure like a hot-spring bath. Ideally naked we slip into the steam and mineral cooking-egg smell of it, sliding bare buttocks down the slickly gnarled sloping rock until our chin rests on the amber surface of the water. If we pray, we pray to the forces of sacred nature, laughing and arguing as we might across the Thanksgiving table. We are part of their family. I lied in that first sentence. Reading Stanley Moss is a hot-spring pleasure—an escape into healing intensities, words kneading the aches from intellect, feeling, and spirit.Read More
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A Man with a Slant Rhyme: Contemplating Ted Kooser
Among my early memories are verses from Mother Goose. The perfect rhymes stick with me, sometimes within lines (“Hay-foot, straw-foot”) and sometimes nailed down at the ends of lines (“Hickory, dickory, dock, / The mouse ran up the clock”). Sometimes the rhymes did not quite align: “This little piggy went to market, / This little piggy stayed home, / This little piggy had roast beef, / This little piggy had none.” I was told that I said to my mother, “‘home” and ‘none’ don’t rhyme.” “But look,” she said. “‘This little piggy’ repeats.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. 
