tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363592192016-09-20T08:05:17.107-06:00The Perpetual BirdRuminations, intimations, protestations, proclamationsJoseph Hutchisonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-30719802001992019882014-11-25T10:47:00.000-07:002014-11-25T10:47:31.880-07:00This Bird Has Flown...After 1168 posts (this is #1169), The Perpetual Bird is moving to Wordpress. This is simply so the blog can be more closely integrated with my writing Web site, www.jhwriter.com. I hope all you birders take wing with it! And I hope you'll forgive any oddities that may crop up as I teach myself to make Wordpress work for and not against me....
Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-37824976621372235612014-11-24T08:00:00.000-07:002014-11-24T08:00:06.509-07:00Knausgaard on Seeking Freedom
Two excerpts here from "At First Blush," by Karl Ove Knausgaard, which appears in the December 2014 issue of Harper's Magazine (translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey):
Many of my writer friends were bullied in childhood, which is not so remarkable, for being a writer is only possible if you are outside the community; only then are you able to identify it, to know it, and to describe Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-44942913535597769882014-11-20T08:00:00.000-07:002014-11-20T08:00:00.092-07:00TweetSpeaking About PoetryMaureen Doallas of TweetSpeakPoetry gave me the opportunity to answer 22 emailed questions about poetry, both writing it and teaching it. I blathered on so much that she had to run the interview in three parts! (What? You're not surprised?) Here are the links:
Hutchison Interview Part 1
Hutchison Interview Part 2
Hutchison Interview Part 3
Enjoy!Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-77728667739396516792014-11-17T11:33:00.002-07:002014-11-17T11:33:13.601-07:00Poetry and Arms
Essentially Bolaño'sCollected Poems
This morning, after watching and reading about the protests over 43 missing students in México.
Hills shaded beyond your dreams.
Castles dreamt by the vagabond.
Dying at the end of any old day.
Impossible to escape violence.
Impossible to think of anything else.
Feeble men praise poetry and arms.
Castles and birds of another imagination.
What has yet to Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-77624778225235725392014-11-06T10:00:00.000-07:002014-11-06T10:00:05.489-07:00Galway Kinnell: The Poetry of Lived LifeJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-13293251583645232042014-11-04T08:51:00.000-07:002014-11-04T08:51:04.409-07:00Announcing "The Conundrum"Conundrum Press, which published my collection Thread of the Real, has announced the first issue of The Conundrum—a free, triannual sampler of the phenomenal literature this Colorado-based press publishes. Enjoy!
Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-46848672457003226392014-10-31T12:45:00.004-06:002014-11-03T14:15:34.742-07:00Adios, Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell, who died on Tuesday, was perhaps the second or third living poet I ever met. He had been invited to read at the University of Northern Colorado, where I was a student. I was 20. I had already witnessed the deep, wild energies of Robert Bly in performance, but based on reading Kinnell's Body Rags I knew not to expect that kind of splash. And Kinnell's wildness didJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-61179888249337416942014-10-27T16:11:00.001-06:002014-10-27T16:11:28.543-06:00An Antidote to Mediocrity and SamenessI'm passing along this message from The Bloomsbury Review, one of the very few publications that seeks out and reviews quality books that are undeservedly overlooked by other media. (You can read their full mission statement here.) Blooms, as long-time supporters and contributing writers like me refer to it, has been offering up intelligent, often extensive reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-31600671831047340172014-09-28T14:00:00.000-06:002014-09-28T14:00:40.702-06:00Laureation; Against Single-Mindedness; etc.
Gov. Hickenlooper, Melody, and I on the west steps of the Capitol
Many of you know that in early September I was chosen by Governor John Hickenlooper to serve for the next four years as Poet Laureate of Colorado. It's a great honor, of course, even more so because Gov. Hickenlooper was an English major with an early interest in creative writing. I don't know what ambitions he had for his Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-61003825110807265732014-09-09T22:15:00.000-06:002014-09-09T22:15:54.982-06:00A Very Good DayJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-70552990242452519132014-08-22T14:32:00.000-06:002014-08-22T14:32:00.067-06:00Don't Miss This if You're in the Denver Area on September 6th
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Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-34560453550331210772014-08-06T20:50:00.000-06:002014-08-06T20:50:00.474-06:00Rimbaud in Java
It’s long been known that Rimbaud journeyed to Java in the spring of 1876, a few months after the death of his beloved sister Vitalie. That voyage hasn’t received much attention, though, until Jamie James turned his attention to it in 2011’s Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage. It’s a beautifully designed, brief but fascinating book, more about Rimbaud’s world in 1876 than about his journey, sinceJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-3870536978348640612014-08-04T09:44:00.000-06:002014-08-04T09:44:11.266-06:00Jonathan Greene Travels Back in Time
Jonathan Greene
Don't miss the simply marvelous poem by Jonathan Greene in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column today. Click here.Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-49012992188044555592014-07-28T09:49:00.000-06:002014-07-28T09:49:00.102-06:00Join Us in Louisville on August 16th for "Image and Word"
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Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-50715731296577011872014-07-26T14:12:00.001-06:002014-07-26T14:12:12.843-06:00Don't Miss This if You're in the Denver Area on August 2nd
BookBar
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Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-71205795822281805072014-07-13T19:06:00.002-06:002014-07-13T19:07:48.206-06:00Walt Whitman Spins in His GraveFirst book awards are apt to be contentious. The major ones—Yale Younger Poets, the APR/Honickman, Cave Canem, the Walt Whitman—produce winners that are as often ignored as praised. In poetry, everything is arguable. But the 2013 Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award winner is especially distressing. Judge John Ashbery chose Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In, which has been issued by Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-18529680131787627312014-07-07T09:11:00.000-06:002014-07-07T09:11:26.745-06:00On Tom Montag's In This Place
In This Place
I highly recommend this insightful review by Peter Stephens of Tom Montag's In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013 over at the wonderful multi-author blog Slow Reads. I've posted many times about Tom and his work, but never as cogently as Peter has in this review. Enjoy!
Also, a heads up: Tom will be reading at BookBar in Denver on Saturday, October 4th. More information on Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-55867536783245119952014-06-30T13:18:00.002-06:002014-06-30T13:19:13.829-06:00Borges and His "Christ on the Cross"I’ve been following a fine freelance translator named A. Z. Foreman, who it seems has never met a language he doesn’t know. His Poems in Translation site is full of gems imported from a dozen or more different languages, including ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, French, German, and Russian.
Jorge Luis Borges walking with Willis Barnstonein Buenos Aires, 1975
His latest translation, as of thisJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-86904350113403273312014-06-06T08:00:00.000-06:002014-06-06T08:00:04.961-06:00On "The Uses of Difficulty"
Sometimes it’s only when a difficulty is removed that we realise what it was doing for us. […] Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine. In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful. But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-45531808395047154232014-06-03T08:00:00.000-06:002014-06-03T08:00:01.943-06:00Transatlantic Poetry with David Mason and Gerry CambridgeDavid Mason here, reading from his wonderful new book Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, followed by the extraordinary Gerry Cambridge, Scottish poet and editor of the journal The Dark Horse. Enjoy!
Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-22330235298736848202014-05-30T08:00:00.000-06:002014-05-30T08:00:00.747-06:00Derek Walcott on the Poet's Voice ... and Much MoreFrom a Bill Moyers interview with Derek Walcott:
It takes you all your life to write the way you speak without faking it. I mean I think it’s very hard for a poet, very-very, very-very hard to get to hear his own voice without affectation. I mean I couldn’t read my poems with a British accent, or an American accent. You know, there’s an inner thing that makes me speak, I hope, the way I would Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-57664102142600160492014-05-27T14:56:00.000-06:002014-05-27T14:56:00.057-06:00Just Listen: A radio interview/reading by Robert Cooperman
My good friend Bob Cooperman reads from his collection of cabbie poems Just Drive on Colorado Public Radio. Give a listen!
Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-24284221106147886042014-05-24T14:31:00.000-06:002014-05-24T14:31:05.623-06:00Bill Tremblay Reading from Magician's Hat at BookBar June 7thJoseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-9420375523548490302014-05-22T08:00:00.000-06:002014-05-22T08:00:03.274-06:00Ting-A-Ling!
I am finally getting around to reading Kurt Vonnegut’s last novel Timequake, which I have put off reading because it leaves me only one Vonnegut title I haven't read. I try not to read everything of a writer I love. An unread bit of oeuvre allows me to pretend that the writer hasn't left us. Anyway, in Chapter 14 of Timequake I came across a statement that explained, in a flash of light, as it Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36359219.post-43474218044266154852014-05-19T08:00:00.000-06:002014-05-19T20:41:57.238-06:00Bed of Coals Reviewed In-Depth by Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch
I'm excited to report that Scottish poet and fiction writer Jim Murdoch, whose incisive essays appear regularly on his piquantly titled blog The Truth About Lies, has written an extensive essay on my own Bed of Coals. It is the most in-depth writing that anyone has done on any of my work, and I appreciate it especially because the structure of Coals admittedly makes it a challenge Joseph Hutchisonhttps://plus.google.com/115285067506770834783noreply@blogger.com2