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Steve Halle’s Working Man’s Blues…
“I WORK FOR DEATH …” It’s only one sentence but what a sentence! Read the whole thing here.Read More
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Stein and the Objectification of Language
On his excellent blog, Fluid/Exchange, Steve Halle has put up an intriguing post on Gertrude Stein‘s lecture “Poetry and Grammar.” I won’t rehash it here. But I will draw attention to one passage that is fraught. Halle is too good a writer to make it seem fraught, but it is, and its fraughtness says a lot, I think, about the influences (good and bad) that Stein has had on poetry various avant-garde movements. Here’s Halle’s statement: Stein begins the essay by exploring the writer’s relationship to words, and this is important because writing is made out of words.Read More
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Readability!
Steve Halle has posted a link to a useful tool for making ugly, hard-to-read Web sites easier on the eyes. It’s called Readability, and you can read all about it at his Fluid / Exchange blog. (He also edits Seven Corners, an online blog publishing poets in and/or from Chicago.) I’ve already used Readability on a variety of blogs with small type, artsy-fartsy backgrounds behind the text, light colored type on dark backgrounds, etc.Read More
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The Grave of Western Civ
Psych! But honestly—Steve Halle of the Fluid/Exchange blog says this work by Holms Troelstrup is “exciting” (he doesn’t say why). Maybe Halle is simply depressed and is thus excited by whatever takes the art of poetry further into inanity. Halle is also excited (again he doesn’t say why) by this interesting blog entry by Robert Archambeau. Archambeau writes about poetry vs. prose, conflating “not-poetry” with prose as if Aristotle had never addressed the issue.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. 
