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“Mr. Yeats, Meet Mr. Freud” (but not Mr. Ashbery)
The works of Yeats and Freud are now available online thanks to the expiration of their copyrights. (Thanks to Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog for this one.) Thanks to the greed-driven expansion of copyright protections future readers will have to wait a good deal longer to access the complete works of Ashbery (for example) online and for free.Read More
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Poetry Qua Money
Thanks once again to Jilly Dybka‘s Poetry Hut Blog for the link to this brief meditation by Writer’s Market and Poet’s Market editor Robert Lee Brewer on the perennial question, “How much money does a poet make?” Brewer correctly answers “peanuts,” though it’s likely to be less: seeds and stems at best. “Bottom line: There’s no money in poetry,” he writes.Read More
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The Importance of Keeping a Notebook
Interviewer: Do you keep a notebook? Tom Waits: Oh yeah, everybody does! Life is too confusing. Monkey wrenches, pocket knives, dog food, instant coffee, lipstick. You gotta get it organized somehow. Whole interview here. And for another, more recent interview, click here.Read More
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Poll: Closet Versifiers Confess Poetry Dread
Now what do you think this means? Seven in ten (73 per cent) [of Britons] are “scared” by [poetry], according to a poll published today, while 67 per cent say reciting poetry leaves them tongue-tied. […] But more than two-thirds of those questioned say they have put pen to paper to create their own verses. Read the whole brief article here.Read More
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Mastering Contextualization—*UPDATED*
I see via Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog that Keyhole Press has published what it calls “a collection of texts based on the works of Calvin Trillin.” But this is no Trillin anthology.Read More
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Jilly Dybka Hosts Katy Evans-Bush’s Virtual Book Tour
Ever been bowled over by a brand new idea? (New to you, I mean.) Well, I was bowled over today by poet Katy Evans-Bush’s “virtual book tour” on Jilly Dybka’s indispensable Poetry Hut Blog. Evans-Bush’s book, tantalizingly entitled Me and the Dead, has just been released by the British literary press Salt Publishing as part of their Salt Modern Poets series. Based on Jilly’s interview, and on the experience of reading an extraordinary poem from the collection (“The Bog of Despair”), I’m placing my order today.Read More
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An Interview with W. S. Merwin
Thanks to Jilly Dybka for the link to this lovely interview with W. S.Read More
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A Greek, a Thracian, and a Phoenician Walk into a Bar…
If you need cheering up as we slide into the Greatest Depression, you can’t go wrong with Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, a translation of jokes from the turn of the fourth century complied by two ancient comedians, Hierocles and Philagrius. No kidding. What’s more, in my humble opinion this eBook produced by Yudu Media represents the future of publishing.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. 
