for the wisdom of the Rocky Mountain National Park
what to call wild use
of nature
to the human
where character
is centered
entering like a devotee,
genuflecting, vast space
what to call drama
of
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states
Colorado
Appointed poet laureate of the state of Colorado on September 9, 2014, Joseph Hutchison teaches at the University of Denver's University College, where he currently directs two programs: Arts & Culture and Global Affairs. He has published several books and chapbooks of poetry.
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name | state |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Series | Colorado State University English Department | Colorado |
| Writing Program | Colorado State University | Colorado |
| Writing Program | Naropa University, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics | Colorado |
| Writing Program | University of Colorado | Colorado |
| Writing Program | University of Denver | Colorado |
| Small Press | Conundrum Press | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | The Colorado Review | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | Copper Nickel | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | Denver Quarterly | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | War, Literature & the Arts | Colorado |
poems
poem
2016
poem
2009
In Colorado, In Oregon, upon each beloved fork, a birthday is celebrated. I miss each and every one of my friends. I believe in getting something for nothing. Push the chair, and what I can tell you with almost complete certainty is that the chair won't mind. And beyond hope, I expect it is like this
poem
1881
Written in Platte Cañon, Colorado
Spirit that form'd this scene, These tumbled rock-piles grim and red, These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks, These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness, These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own, I know thee, savage
