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Thread of the Real
Had a “celebratory lunch” today with my publisher, Caleb J. Seeling, owner of Conundrum Press, which is bringing out my 12th collection Thread of the Real.* The book’s designer extraordinaire, Sonya Unrein, joined us. What a pleasure to sit down with such committed and energetic people! Looks like the book will be released in the first full week of May. I imagine it will blink like a prisoner freed from his dungeon, who had forgotten the sky is still there….Read More
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Friday Notebook 03.02.12
Had I posted a Friday Notebook entry last week it would have comprised the first half of the quotations below. They are from Lawrence Durrell’s Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982), which I finished reading yesterday—in between various writing-for-hire and teaching-related activities. Constance is the third in Durrell’s final novel series, his “quincunx” of five novels. Herewith, a few extracts: Lawrence Durrell He wore his puritan life like a dead crow round his neck. * If foreigners did not exist the English would not know who to patronize.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. 
