Colorado’s new poet laureate offers up fall arts preview, in verse

September 10, 2014

Photo: Poet laureate Joseph Hutchison 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.

Hover your cursor over the underlined text to see more information about each event referenced in the poem. Or, if you are on a phone or tablet, scroll to the bottom to the footnotes for links.

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