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Lovelandia
I want to thank the good people of the Loveland Public Library, Columbine Poets, and the Loveland Museum/Gallery for producing a rather large crowd for this past Friday’s reading and the workshop next morning. Since Gov. Hickenlooper whacked me with his gubernatorial wand and transmogrified me from an ink-stained wretch into a laureate, I’ve done more such events than I did in the ten years previous, and I have to say that this audience was one of the most engaged I’ve ever come across.Read More
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Me and My Betters…
Join me and a number of my betters—Veronica Patterson, Bob King, and sundry others—for a free reading at the Loveland Public Library at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 21st. And/or come to the free poetry workshop the next morning, Saturday, August 22nd, from 10 a.m. to noon.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Robert Wendell King
CHOOSING WHERE TO LEAVE 1. The Corso Death Scene Gregory once told me that if he were on the street and knew he were dying, he’d slip into a movie, didn’t know why. So there were assumptions: a theater nearby, the right time. Well, we know now his way didn’t happen—daughter’s house, hospital. I thought, reading the news, that a movie would have had the comfort of closed darkness and he’d have been with others, a whole roomful staring at lights, at color, with music, everyone talking and talking on the screen, a movie about being alive. 2.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. 
