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And Other Silly Questions…
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The Statistical Minority
Josef Škvorecký, the great Czech novelist, author of The Engineer of Human Souls (beautifully translated by Paul Wilson) and other meditations on in the spiritual/intellectual havoc inflicted by totalitarians, writes this about the the rise and fall of the Prague Spring: The statistical majority struggles only for more bread; the statistical minority struggles too, for more non-bread.Read More
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A Squirt of the Salve of Humor
I’ve ranted here before about poetry written by grad students for other grad students—you know, that fragmentary, theory-ridden, wink-wink nudge-nudge poetry invoking the mouldering corpses of Wittgenstein and Derrida as if their ideas had not long ago been zombified. Well, it turns out that this kind of poetry has its analog in disciplines other than the language arts.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. 
