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Salud to Joe Nigg for His Lifetime Achievement
Check out this tantalizing interview with my friend Joe Nigg on the occasion of his receiving the Colorado Authors’ League Lifetime Achievement Award. Never was such an honor so well deserved. Click here to visit his website, where you’ll discover a whole world of myth and legend that you may have thought consisted of only an island or two. You can also have fun scrolling through the eight pages of his books in numerous languages available on Amazon.Read More
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Joseph Nigg’s Sea Monsters Has Arrived…
Congratulations to my good friend and mythic-monsterologist Joe Nigg on the release of his new book by University of Chicago Press, Sea Monsters: A Voyage Around the World’s Most Beguiling Map.Read More
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Friday Notebook 12.23.11
From Last Summer to Ancient Greece Rain in the west between us and Mount EvansAugust 30, 2011 * * * Titian, Danaë and the Shower of Gold(1554) * * * A Discreet Purchase Zeus bought Danaë with golden rain and I purchase you with a gold coin. I can’t, after all, pay more than Zeus. ______________________ Macedonian poet Parmenion, between 50 BCE and 50 CE (tr. Willis Barnstone) * * * Vase painting of Danaë and the Shower of Goldc.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. 
