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Belle Turnbull at the Colorado Creative Industries Summit
I came to this year’s Colorado Creative Industries Summit in Breckenridge with two tasks in mind. One was to represent the new Professional Creative Writing master’s degree program which I’m directing at the University of Denver’s University College. My second task was to welcome attendees of the annual Governor’s Creative Leadership Awards luncheon with a poem. Rather than regale the crowd with a poem of mine, I offered one by a woman who, for my money, is among the three or four best poets Colorado has produced so far.Read More
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Looking Forward to Poetry Month 2016
An early heads up: the venerable Stories on Stage will be presenting an excerpt from my long historical poem “A Marked Man” in April 2016. The poem, of course, from my collection Marked Men. Sam Gregory, a high-energy actor whose work I saw at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts when he played (brilliantly) Vanya in Vanya and Masha and Sonia and Spike, will perform it.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Headwaters Poetry Festival
Click Here for More Information The first annual Headwaters Poetry Festival kicks off this April at the Gunnison Arts Center. In coordination with Western State Colorado University’s Department of Communication Arts, Languages & Literature, we are excited to present an inspiring collection of readings, panel discussions and workshops. Visiting poets from the Western Slope include Wendy Videlock, Art Goodtimes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Kyle Harvey along with local poets David Rothman, George Sibley, Alan Wartes, Toni Todd, Elizabyth Hiscox, Mark Todd and Douglas Jones.Read More
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Poetry 2014 at BookBar
I started organizing First Saturday Poetry Readings at BookBar, a thriving indie bookstore in Northwest Denver, back in April 2014, and as the year nears its end I thought it would be useful to list everyone who has participated so far. Saturday, April 5: Andrea Hollander, reading from Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982–2012; Robert Cooperman, reading from Just Drive; and me myself, reading from the paperback reissue of Bed of Coals. Saturday, May 2: David Mason, then Poet Laureate of Colorado, and Chris Ransick, erstwhile Poet Laureate of Denver, in a Laureate Smackdown.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, 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 three programs: Professional Creative Writing, Arts & Culture Management, and Global Community Engagement. 
