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Mark Your Calendars to Celebrate Poetry in Crestone!
The date is set for October 17-20, and the poets are starting to plan their 7th annual Crestone Poetry Festival. Please join them as they return to the Crestone Charter School campus and throughout Crestone Town for more sharing, workshopping, jamming, gourd-circling, writing, and crying art-filled fun.Read More
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PoemFest “Good Medicine” Reading—**Updated with Link**
I’ll be one of 30 poets reading “good medicine” poems at the 2021 virtual PoemFest celebration via Zoom from 4:30-6:30 Mountain Time. Poets include: Juliana Aragon Fatula, Esther G. Belin, Debbi Brody, Nathan Brown, Julie Cummings, Lawton Eddy, Barbara Ford, Art Goodtimes, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Laurie V. James, Kate Kingston, Lynda LaRocca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Don McIver, Anne MacNaughton, Tori Miner, Juan Morales, Craig Nielson, William Pitt Root, Danny Rosen, David Rothman, Susan Tichy, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney, Pam Ushuk, Wendy Videlock, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Gary Worth Moody.Read More
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Let’s Have Some Fun in Crestone!
I’m excited to be joining so many fantastic poets in Crestone! The full festival runs Thursday through Sunday, February 21-24. Work commitments are keeping me from basking in the entire event and the many tantalizing workshops on offer. My particular workshop, on Saturday, February 23, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., is called The Music of What Happens: Exploring Soundscape. Here’s the description: The music that makes poems memorable springs from the interaction of cadences and the rise and fall of syllable sounds.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. 
