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Adventures in Reading 2019
2019 was a challenging year—deaths, health scares, creative dysfunction—but as ever, reading sustained me. I finally read Juan Rulfo‘s classic Pedro Páramo—one of those books that makes me wonder why I waited so long. It’s a visceral, phantasmagorical novel with all the psychic force of Greek tragedy. I knew that it is widely considered the first fully-realized instance of magical realism, and I can see how unlikely it would be for us to have One Hundred Years of Solitude without Rulfo’s influence.Read More
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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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My Year in Books (2017)
This year’s list is longer than usual, in part because I created two literature courses for the Professional Creative Writing program I direct at D.U.’s University College, a process that entailed lots of reading.Read More
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My Year in Books (2015)
I, too, dislike “best books” lists except when they bring me news of books I want to read but somehow overlooked, which is surprisingly seldom. Over 60-plus years of reading, beginning, as I recall, with Little Golden Books, I’ve developed enough self-awareness to guess correctly about 70 percent of time which books will bring me that mixture of pleasure and revelation that is my particular addiction.Read More
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Narayana Dreams the World
One of the most entertaining posts yet from poet/translator/editor Pat Dubrava’s blog Holding the Light. The blog’s name is the same as the poet’s second book, Holding the Light, which you can buy here (scroll down just a bit to find it). It’s a lovely collection of resonant poems like this one: IMBRICATION The poem “Naráyana”by Elsa Cross describes anaspect of the god Vishnu, who dreams the world intoexistence. He is often depicted sleeping on a bed ofcoiled cobra, over primal waters.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
I want to thank our latest Perpetual Birder for joining us on this flight of fancy, the illustrious fiction writer, poet, translator, and editor, C. M. Mayo, who must have ESP because I just last week started reading her colorful, engaging novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Many moons ago her celebration/meditation concerning Baja California, Miraculous Air, helped to prepare me (more or less) for the intense beauty of that peninsula before I finally came to visit it (all too briefly) just last year.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. 
