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Poetry Month 2016: Linda Pastan
The Poets They are farmers, really– hoeing and planting in strict rows ripe with manure, coaxing each nebulous seed to grow. Year after year of drought or rainstorm, locust or killing frost, they bundle their hay into stacks of inflammable gold, or litter the barn floors with empty husks. At the market they acknowledge each other gruffly and move on, noting who has the more bountiful harvest, whose bushel baskets are laden with beets and tomatoes, tumescent with fruit.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. 
