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Adventures in Reading 2021
It was another pandemic year, in some ways more challenging than the first. There was a sense of fraying in the fabric of social life, work life, personal focus (my poetry journal full of fragments that I’m not postmodern enough to throw down on pages and pretend that they cohere as poems), the persistent floating anxiety. Among the various costumes that relief arrived in were books, of course.Read More
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A Fine Start to the New Year
On New Year’s Eve I picked up mail at our little local P.O. and what should I find but some starch for my flagging ego: a hot-off-the-press copy of a new anthology, Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, edited by Madelyn Garner and Andrea L. Watson. It’s the first publication of a new press called simply 3: A Taos Press. The book was even then listed on Amazon, though—as often happens with brand new titles—was tagged as “out of stock.” It’s in stock there now, and I hope you’ll give it a look.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. 
