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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
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Tracy K. Smith & Kevin Young in Conversation
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NEW TIME for March 28th Reading @ BookBar with Winograd and Schelling
NOTE the NEW 8:00 pm START TIME! Also remember that this is an in-person event.Read More
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Don’t Miss Kathryn Winograd & Andrew Schelling March 28th @ BookBar
Please Note that This is an In-Person Event! BookBar, 4280 Tennyson Street, Denver CO 80212 | 303.284.0194Read 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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Under the Sleep’s New Moon
Under Sleep’s New Moon is Joseph Hutchison’s 20th collection of poems. Title: Under Sleep’s New Moon: Rescued Poems 1970–1990 ISBN (Paperback): 978-1630450748 Publication Date: September 1, 2021 Length: 108 pages “Not just rescued poems from Under Sleep’s New Moon, but a sustained radiance and thrall that continues to rescue language and the natural world from the maw of capitalism. [Hutchison’s] voice ‘tries on color after color,’ pushing toward an aura we all need in today’s heartless weather.Read More
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A Goodbye Poem for a Friend
The Raven Maven A knockoff for Ali Once upon a midnight dreary, while I graded, weak and weary, Picking sentences apart so much my head had grown fell sore— While I nodded, not quite snoring, suddenly there came a roaring, Like some raging bull was goring, goring my poor chamber door.Read More
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Free Literary Reading with Able Muse Authors
Coming up in less than 1 week… Three Acclaimed Able Muse Authors Read: Catherine Chandler, Hollis Seamon, Wendy Videlock Join us for a virtual reading and Q&A with three acclaimed Able Muse authors.Read More
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A Virtual Celebration of Spring (Save the Date…)
Sunday, March 21 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (Mountain Time ) Open Zoom: 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Each reader will have a 2-minute spot, including opening or inter-poem remarks. Read your own work or work by your favorite author. Featured Readers: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.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. 
