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Belife
One of my favorite online subscriptions is to the Clippings newsletter from Katexic. (Click here for a free subscription.) Clippings offers up a potpourri of quotations, intriguing links, and commentary notable for its brevity and wit. So I was thrilled to see, earlier this week, that editor Chris Lott had snagged and reproduced my early poem “Belief,” from my first full-length collection, The Undersides of Leaves. Only problem … the title was mangled: “Belife” instead of “Belief.” Naturally, I emailed Chris to thank him for the ink (er … pixels) and to point out the error.Read More
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Onion Poetics
Chris Lott at Cosmopoetica has been doing a great job reading his way through the latest Best American Poetry volume, edited by David Wagoner. I was so taken with his close reading of the Terrance Hayes‘s poem “A House is not a Home” that I dove into the comment stream with this observation: I have to be honest: the first two sentences of your post led me to expect a close reading of a single poem—and sure enough, you delivered! No thumping of this or that Theory drum, just a thoughtful response to the words on the page.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. 
