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The Lavishly Talented C. M. Mayo Interviews Li’l Ol’ Me
https://madam-mayo.com/q-a-joseph-hutchison-poet-laureate-of-colorado-on-the-world-as-is/Read More
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Spring, Poetry, David Mason … and the Danger of Having a Poet Laureate
Don’t miss this wonderful interview….Read More
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Adios, Donald Hall
We shall have to wait for the better-written obituaries, but this one will have to do for now, despite its peculiarities. This non sequitur, for example: “An opponent of the Vietnam war, he was ruthlessly self-critical.” Or: “He met Daniel Ellsberg and would suspect well before others that the leaker of the Vietnam war documents known as the Pentagon Papers was his college friend.” Well, we are in the realm of journalistic deadlines, and even major new outlets have experienced cuts on the editorial side.Read More
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Louise Glück on Poetry, Life, and the Life of the Poet
I remember reading Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” and I remember reading the song from Cymbeline, “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun.” And I must have been five years old, four years old—little … but I heard those poems. I often didn’t know …—with Blake’s poem, I knew obviously nothing of the historical background of the poem, but the cry from the heart to my ear, that I could hear. And other wonderful observations from one of our finest living poets….Read More
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On the Arvada Center’s WWI Series of Events including “War of Words”
For more on the “War of Words” poetry performance Philip mentioned in his interview, click here.Read More
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Poetry and Possibility: A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
“A poem isn’t just an expression of all these things that you’re feeling. But it’s a set of choices that you’re making in language. So every description, every question, every statement, every turn, is a choice that opens up or closes off certain possibilities.” —Tracy K. Smith, U.S.Read More
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Russian Connection (no, not that one)
“When I write a poem, I don’t think about it as a part of a book. I even forget that it will be published; that someone is going to read it. When I write, the ghost of my reader does not peek over my shoulder. I purposely scribble. I write letters to myself I send to my future.Read More
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PBS NewsHour Poetry Sends in the Clown(s)
A nicely written interview by Mary Jo Brooks—along with one of my more topical poems rom The World As Is and a recording of me reading it—is now up at the PBS NewsHour Poetry website. I love the title!Read More