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Interview with Ernesto Cardenal
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Inspiration, Sweat and Tears
I’ve always been skeptical about the value of poets commenting on their own poems. This is purely subjective, based on my own experience: I have rarely said anything useful about my own poems and have often made actively unhelpful observations. But now and again I run across a poet who is uncommonly articulate about his or her own work (W. D. Snodgrass on The Fuehrer Bunker, for example, or Denise Levertov on “The Mutes”).Read More
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Submission…
After a long hiatus I’m back to submitting poems to journals and peddling a new book-length collection to publishers. The process is ugly, not just because it’s tedious or because it involves rejection (hell, I eat rejection for breakfast!), but because the more I read and re-read my own work the worse it looks.Read More
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Paris Review Interviews Charles Simic
Also take a minute to listen to this audio of Simic reading “In the Planetarium” from his collection My Noiseless Entourage.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. 
