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Louise Glück Wins the Nobel Prize
I’ve always loved Louise Glück’s poetry, which has always presented an almost Rilkean inwardness. The Nobel literature committee’s choice evidently came as a surprise. After all, the hapless Alex Shephard at The New Republic just two days ago included Glück on his “These Americans Aren’t Going to Win” list. He pegged her odds at 25-1 and added this remark: “Least irritating poet whose work you regularly encounter on Instagram.” Just how irritating she is Mr. Shephard may have occasion to tell us in a future issue of TNR.Read More
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Publishing Opportunity at Middle Creek
Ordinarily I’m not a big fan of contests, but Middle Creek Publishing selects fine writing, does beautiful printing, and is in the process of actively building its list in both poetry and fiction.Read More
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Bill Tremblay @ the 2019 Columbine Poets Fest
Don’t miss one of Colorado’s finest poets … plus food and drink! What more could you want?Read More
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Join Me & Other Denver Area Authors
Click here for complete details (you’ll need to scroll down after you land).Read More
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Kick Off Poetry Month with a Laureate-Po-Looza
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Join Us for a free Creative Writing Open House
Come meet some of our key faculty ( and moi ) in the Professional Creative Writing MA program at University College on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. The Open House will be at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO 80210. [View Map] We’ll convene in the Williams Recital Salon … enjoy some readings, presentations, banter … and afterward—drinks and snacks.Read More
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Garner and Weeber—First Saturday Reading This Saturday, December 2: Join Us!
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Stendhal to Zagajewski to Me … to You
From Adam Zagajewski‘s memoir (self-investigation?), Slight Exaggeration, in Clare Cavanagh‘s beautiful translation: Stendhal in Souvenirs d’égotisme: “Le génie poétique est mort, mais le génie du soupçon est venu au monde” (The genius of poetry has left us, the spirit of suspicion takes its place—in my loose translation). Is it true? Yes, as to the spirit of suspicion, and it’s also true that poetry and suspicion must always do battle, a vicious war in which prisoners are slain without mercy, flouting Geneva conventions.Read More
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Eleanor Goodman: A Second Encounter
If you can’t make it to D.U. to hear Eleanor Goodman talk about her translated anthology of Chinese migrant worker poems, Iron Moon—and even if you’ll be there!—here’s another chance to hear her, this time focusing on her own first book of poems, Nine Dragon Island. Join her at BookBar on Saturday, September 16th, at 7:00 p.m.Read More
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Don’t Miss Eleanor Goodman @ DU on September 15!
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. 
