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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!
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Tidbits from Josef Škvorecký’s “Magnum Opus”
It was Milan Kundera who dubbed The Engineer of Human Souls, by the great Czech/Canadian writer Josef Škvorecký, “a magnum opus.” He was correct. I quoted from it in an earlier post, when I was part-way into the 570-page novel, and now that I’ve finished it, here are a few more gleanings: The most incredible comedies are written by life. • What we feel is obviously more important than what we know. That’s what we live for. We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we’re living for the pleasure wisdom brings us.Read More
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Two Great Events on One May Weekend
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Thinking of Trump’s Tweet …
… saying that “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive” [6 Nov 2012]: He Tells Her by Wendy Cope He tells her that the earth is flat— He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round. And, of course, getting warmer.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2018, 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 two programs: Arts & Culture and Global Affairs. 
