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Welcome, Lakeviewer…
I want to welcome “Lakeviewer” as a new Perpetual Bird follower. She has a lovely blog and lives in Port Orford, Oregon, “the oldest and most westerly townsite on the Oregon coast.” I imagine Lakeviewer derives from her proximity to Garrison Lake.Read More
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Welcome, Mairi!
Welcome to new “follower” Mairi, who seems to have no blog of her own. (Ah, I remember when I had no blog.Read More
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Welcome, Scott McCloud
A hearty welcome to Scott A. McCloud, our 18th “follower.” Scott drops in from Newton, Kansas, which looks to be situated about 36 miles east of Hutchinson—a town whose name actually has an “n” in the middle (unlike my own—what were they thinking?).Read More
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Another Welcome…
Welcome to “follower” number 17, Melissa Barrett-Traister, who blogs at Musings… and doubtless enjoys the sun in Scottsdale, AZ….Read More
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Artistic Visitors…
A hearty Perpetual Bird welcome to two new “followers,” Hilton McLaurin (see here and here) and Rachete, both visual artists.Read More
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Bouncing through Blogland
Welcome to The Perpetual Bird’s 13th “follower,” poet and Ph.D. student Jeff Stumpo, who found us, I assume, “bouncing through Blogland”—as he put in the 1/22/09 post on his blog A Piecemeal Poet(ry).Read More
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Follower Twelve…
Welcome to Aaron Apps, who just joined as our twelfth “follower” (I wish we had a less loaded term for y’all) and who, according to his blog, “is putting the final touches on my manuscript Compos(t) Mentis which, if all goes well, will come out from BlazeVOX in the near future.” BlazeVOX bills itself as a “refuge” for “Post-Avant Poetries & Fiction,” so the fact that Aaron is willing to follow a curmudgeonly blog like The Perpetual Bird is both surprising and gratifying.Read More
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The 11th Follower
A hearty welcome to new Perpetual Bird follower Andrew Shields. Our thought-canoes have passed, now close, now farther apart, in a variety of comment streams (always a pleasure).Read More
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Followers
I’ve been dilatory about thanking the people who’ve joined this blog as followers.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. 
