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Celebrate Armistice Day with “War of Words”
Click here to order or reserve tickets. Just $5 each! On Veterans Day, November 11, One Night Stand Theater will present a theatrical piece I created called “War of Words,” first performed at the Arvada Center earlier this year. November 11 is the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I. With that in mind, “War of Words” features poetry of “The Great War,” primarily poetry by Americans such as Carl Sandburg, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and many others.Read More
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Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War
Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War is Joseph Hutchison’s 3rd edited anthology of poems. Title: Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War ISBN: 9781610195041 Publication Date: March 14, 2018 Length: 98 pages Binding: Trade paper From the Introduction: This anthology, consisting mainly of American poets writing during and after the Great War, grew out of a text called “War of Words,” which I created for performance by actors from The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. It was composed to be part of the Center’s 18-month-long commemoration of America’s engagement in that transformational conflict.Read More
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Legions of the Sun—Now Available
The companion anthology to “War of Words” is now available.Read More
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Legions of the Sun
Good news! The companion anthology to “War of Words,” Legions of the Sun, has arrived just in time for you to purchase it at the event! The book includes all the poems performed in “War of Words” as well as poems about WWI but written later. The latter section includes work from the immediate post-war (Jeffers, Pound, Eliot, Cummings and more) along with poems about the war by more recent poets, ranging from Louise Bogan, Archibald MacLeish, and Yehuda Amichai to Thomas Lux, Nicholas Samaras, Robert Cooperman, and Kierstin Bridger.Read More
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You’re Invited to Enjoy A Friday Evening of Poetry in Support of Girls’ Education
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50 Best Poetry Books Since 1950
Back in 2009, Tony Barnstone initiated a game on Eratosphere that involved readers posting their choices for “the Best 100 Poetry Books of the 20th Century.” It was a great exercise because it was more than a list: each reader could choose only one book and had to write a brief paragraph explaining why that book belonged on the list. Well, we’re almost a decade and a half into the 21st century, and the 20th “best books” lists have been done to death. So I’d like to adapt Barnstone’s game to our current situation.Read More
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Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai Has Arrived!
Buy Now! Proceeds benefit the Malala Fund. I’m so glad to have had a hand in this beautiful publication. The poems are wonderful and the cause even more so: supporting Malala Yousafzai‘s efforts to make education available to girls everywhere. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the one-year anniversary of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting by the Taliban for speaking out for the right of girls to an education, FutureCycle Press publishes Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai in her honor. Edited by poets Joseph Hutchison and Andrea L.Read More
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Press Release: Malala Anthology Coming October 9!
For the past year Andrea Watson and I have been working with Diane Kistner at FutureCycle Press on a Good Works anthology of poems for Malala Yousafzai. All proceeds benefit the Malala Fund, which is devoted to helping girls go to school and raise their voices for the right to education. Full details below. Note the link under the press release: the online version includes a sampling of poems from the book. The book will be released on October 9, and I urge you to put a reminder on your calendar to buy a copy or three.Read More
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A Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai: submissions call
Poetry Anthology for Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl was, on October 9, 2012, shot by a Taliban gunman as she was returning home from school. See article here. Malala is a blogger and education activist who has been speaking out against the unjust treatment of women in her own country.Diane Kistner, editor of FutureCycle Press, has invited Conrad DiDiodato and I to co-edit a poetry anthology honoring the life and values of Malala Yousafzai. All proceeds will go to a cause Malala would wish to support.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. 
