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Adios, Dic Jones
Another poet introduced to me via death notice. I could not read Dic Jones if I wanted, unless he’s been brought over into English (I can’t find a trace of it if so). But I was able to find this fascinating video of the poet reciting his poem “Y Gwanwyn” (“To Spring,” I believe), apparently on his farm at Blaenannerch, near Cardigan. It’s wonderful hearing the moist Welsh words lovingly uttered under a sky full of clouds, upon a field of green, by an elder poet leaning comfortably back against a tractor wheel.Read More
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The Freedom to Blaspheme
I imagine we have increasing instances of this to look forward to on the way to the Romney-Palin ticket in 2012: Christian activists are due to stage a protest outside the Welsh Assembly tomorrow over Patrick Jones’s poetry collection Darkness Is Where the Stars Are, which they describe as “ugly, indecent and blasphemous”.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. 
