Colorado's new poet laureate, Joseph Hutchison, wrote a pithy and eloquent preview of upcoming events in the Colorado arts world. And, of course, he did it using his medium of choice: poetry.
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By Joseph Hutchison
Promo in the Form of an Homage
with apologies to e. e. cummings
in Just-
fall when walls at MCA1
and DAM2 are color-
luscious the little
inkstained poetman
murmurs wild and low
and jazz-meisters dazzle at Dazzle3
while boy seeks mom at Su Teatro4
and Sin is in the Starz5 and it’s
fall
when Telluride is bluesy-wonderful6
and Step Afrika claps and stomps7
the weird
old poetman murmurs
wild and low
and Lynn Harrell’s cello goes rococo8
where the Gunnison rolls into the Colorado
and belters get their kicks9 along the Poudre and
it's
fall
and
the
art-sozzled
poetMan murmurs
wild
and
low
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