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Expanding the Circle
Thanks to Greg Rappleye for adding this blog to his blogroll.Read More
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Those Wacky Folks At … (well, read the post)
You know you’re in trouble as a blogger when everybody else’s posts are more interesting than anything you can think of. Blue Monday. What else can I say? Nothing except that this one is terrific—a glimpse inside the corrupted poetry contest system, in which more than one hapless author has been trapped like flies in a Coke bottle. At any rate, it’s made me add Stacey Lynn Brown to my watch list for first books by up and coming poets. The woman’s got guts! Thanks to Greg Rappleye at Sonnets at 4 a.m.Read More
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Post and Riposte
Here’s a comment I made in reply to a post by Travis Nichols on the Harriet blog. Yes, this is a post about a post to a post! And it contains a riposte…. I posted this reply to Greg Rappleye’s “Not again, Billy” post “Logan continues to be one of the nastiest, shallowest reviewers around. He wears his cleverness like a cheap cologne (remember English Leather?), and the odor—part anger, part envy, part groundless vanity—is overwhelming. His atrocious poetry gives off the same reek, laced with a dash of sour malaise.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. 
