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BRISTLECONE July 2022 is Live!
Here’s the link to the July 2022 issue of Bristlecone.Read More
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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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In Case You Missed It…
Here is a link to the Loveland Poet Laureate Reading last night featuring yours truly and the extraordinary Lisa Zimmerman. I believe a good time was had by all! ~~~~ P.S. Here’s the first online review of the reading: https://secondlettersalon.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-review-of-moons-and-saints.html.Read More
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Zoom in to Hear Me and Lisa Zimmerman Reading from our New Books!
I’m excited to be Zoom-reading with the wonderful poet Lisa Zimmerman on Thursday, December 9th, at 7 p.m. Mountain Time. Register in advance to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduGuqzsoGdRjqF3qjtGxnFzocxWeLgIi Lisa will be reading from her new collection, Sainted, which I read over the weekend and rapid clip and then returned to for a slower, more savoring experience. I highly recommend it…. I’ll be reading from my new collection, Under Sleep’s New Moon, a gathering of “rescued poems” from my first decade-and-a-half of writing. Again, register in advance at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduGuqzsoGdRjqF3qjtGxnFzocxWeLgIi After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom.Read More
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My Year in Books (2016)
As I did at the end of 2015, I’m laying out my past year’s book reading in the spirit of sharing the often haphazard journey of mind and heart that is my chief solitary pleasure. (There are other pleasures, of course, not solitary at all, but they don’t involve this particular addiction.) Again, the books listed below are ordered according to when I read them. I won’t comment on all of these titles because all of them are well worth reading.Read More
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Poetry Month 2016: Lisa Zimmerman
The Exiled Poet Reads to a Mostly Middle Class White Audience The white page is pure amnesia. —Bei Dao When the Chinese poet read his poems in his original tongue symbols turned in his mouth dissolved into words, little singing sounds flew around his face like papery moths saved from a burning decade and into the audience small black brooms swept between two centuries a child’s hands letting go a few, a hundred, numberless silk stars. [From How the Garden Looks from Here] ~ From the publisher’s Web site: Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St.Read More
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Join Us in Louisville on August 16th for “Image and Word”
Click Here for Tickets All proceeds benefit the Louisville Cultural Council All proceeds benefit the Louisville Cultural Council Click Here for TicketsRead 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. 
