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Poetry Month 2016: Eavan Boland
What Language Did
The evening was the same as any other.
I came out and stood on the step. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Constantine Cavafy
The First Step
The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritos:
“I have been writing for t Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: John Brandi
No Ship Will Ever Take You
Away From Yourself
—Cavafy
Sunrise through glazed reeds. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Ovid
Tristia, Book IV, 10
Who was this I you read, this trifler in tender passions?
You want to know, pos Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Hayden Carruth
Ovid, Old Buddy, I Would Discourse with You a While
upon mutability—if it were possible. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Sam Hamill
from Lives of a Poet: Four Letters to Hayden Carruth
2. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Jared Carter
For Starr Atkinson, Who Designed Books
Oldest of words, of sounds: star. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Lynn Wagner
Neruda
O you marvelousmaker of music
whose succulent Spanishcelebrated all
the ten thousandthousand Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Louis Simpson
The Unwritten Poem
You will never write the poem about Italy. Read More -
Poetry Month 2016: Ce Rosenow
On Reading Sappho’s Lyrics
Sunday morning
I trace each line of verse
with my index finger,
find my Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 17 books, including a translation of flash fictions by Mexican author Miguel Lupián, and co-edited two anthologies. He lives in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. He teaches at the University of Denver's University College, where he currently directs three programs: Professional Creative Writing, Arts & Culture Management, and Global Community Engagement. 
