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Adventures in Reading 2022
PART ONE: DISTRACTION AND ENCHANTMENT 2022 was unkind to my habit of reading lots of books. Partly my paid work was to blame: growing pains (which I am too old for) of the professional kind. Then there was the several weeks I wasted on Thomas Mann‘s Doctor Faustus, which I had to abandon. What drudgery! What a distraction! I’d read and admired a number of Mann’s short stories, but Doctor Faustus struck me as all posturing, a ponderous performance with no point in sight, almost every moment of it arriving via second- or third-hand reports about Mann’s fictional, Schoenbergian composer, Adrian Leverkühn.Read More
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Free Literary Reading with Able Muse Authors
Coming up in less than 1 week… Three Acclaimed Able Muse Authors Read: Catherine Chandler, Hollis Seamon, Wendy Videlock Join us for a virtual reading and Q&A with three acclaimed Able Muse authors.Read More
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PoemFest “Good Medicine” Reading—**Updated with Link**
I’ll be one of 30 poets reading “good medicine” poems at the 2021 virtual PoemFest celebration via Zoom from 4:30-6:30 Mountain Time. Poets include: Juliana Aragon Fatula, Esther G. Belin, Debbi Brody, Nathan Brown, Julie Cummings, Lawton Eddy, Barbara Ford, Art Goodtimes, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Laurie V. James, Kate Kingston, Lynda LaRocca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Don McIver, Anne MacNaughton, Tori Miner, Juan Morales, Craig Nielson, William Pitt Root, Danny Rosen, David Rothman, Susan Tichy, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney, Pam Ushuk, Wendy Videlock, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Gary Worth Moody.Read More
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Let the Goodtimes Roll
I’m excited by the prospect of a new collection of poems from Art Goodtimes, Dancing on Edge: The McRedeye Poems.Read More
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Let’s Have Some Fun in Crestone!
I’m excited to be joining so many fantastic poets in Crestone! The full festival runs Thursday through Sunday, February 21-24. Work commitments are keeping me from basking in the entire event and the many tantalizing workshops on offer. My particular workshop, on Saturday, February 23, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., is called The Music of What Happens: Exploring Soundscape. Here’s the description: The music that makes poems memorable springs from the interaction of cadences and the rise and fall of syllable sounds.Read More
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Exciting news from the inimitable Wendy Videlock that one of her recent poems has been chosen by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in the 2017 edition of Best American Poetry.Read More
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A Luminous Night and the Following Day
I had the enormous pleasure of reading at Lithic Bookstore/Gallery and Press in Fruita, Colorado, a few miles from the Colorado/Utah border. Hosted by the owners, Danny Rosen and Kyle Harvey, both considerable poets in their own write, the reading was not only well attended but lively, various, and fundamentally joyful. In addition to reading with Danny and Kyle, there were the extraordinary Jack Mueller, Jennifer Rane Hancock, Sandra Dorr, and Frank H. Coons. I also got to meet—finally, after years of being a fan—poet and visual artist Wendy Videlock.Read More
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My Year in Books (2015)
I, too, dislike “best books” lists except when they bring me news of books I want to read but somehow overlooked, which is surprisingly seldom. Over 60-plus years of reading, beginning, as I recall, with Little Golden Books, I’ve developed enough self-awareness to guess correctly about 70 percent of time which books will bring me that mixture of pleasure and revelation that is my particular addiction.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Headwaters Poetry Festival
Click Here for More Information The first annual Headwaters Poetry Festival kicks off this April at the Gunnison Arts Center. In coordination with Western State Colorado University’s Department of Communication Arts, Languages & Literature, we are excited to present an inspiring collection of readings, panel discussions and workshops. Visiting poets from the Western Slope include Wendy Videlock, Art Goodtimes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Kyle Harvey along with local poets David Rothman, George Sibley, Alan Wartes, Toni Todd, Elizabyth Hiscox, Mark Todd and Douglas Jones.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. 
