Wole Soyinka
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Adventures in Reading 2021
by Joseph Hutchison on January 1, 2022 PermalinkIt was another pandemic year, in some ways more challenging than the first. There was a sense of fraying in the fabric of social life, work life, personal focus (my poetry journal full of fragments that I’m not postmodern enough to throw down on pages and pretend that they cohere as poems), the persistent floating anxiety. Among the various costumes that relief arrived in were books, of course.Read More
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The Sound of the Poet
by Joseph Hutchison on May 19, 2009 PermalinkPoetry International Web has added a page to its vast and wonderful site called The Sound of the Poet. You can hear a variety of voices, including Carol Ann Duffy, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wole Soyinka, and Pablo Neruda (reading “The Heights of Machu Picchu”).Read More