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Lois Hayna: Coping Without a Miracle
Not long after I put up the just previous post about Lois Hayna’s Lifetime Achievement Award, an email arrived from David Giannini with this gently prodding subject line, “One Poem Proving Her Talent,” and this Lois Hayna poem in the body of the message: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Our last glimpse was all green—the trees, the gray-green slats of the gate,lively with foliage billowing through.My last glance back, I sawthe green-gold flash of the serpentslithering down into dewy grass. I wouldn’t go back through that gateif He suddenly forgave.Read More
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Lois Hayna and the Strangeness of Beauty Perfected
I am thrilled to let everyone know that my friend and fellow poet Lois Hayna has been awarded the Colorado Authors’ League’s first Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations, Lois! I first met Lois when she joined a poetry workshop I taught for now defunct Rocky Mountain Writers Guild back in the mid-1970s.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. 
