Joseph Hutchison

Joseph Hutchison, currently serving as Poet Laureate of Colorado, is the author of sixteen collections of poems, including The Satire Lounge, Marked Men, Thread of the Real, and Bed of Coals. He has also coedited, with Andrea Watson, the FutureCycle Press Good Works anthology Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai (all profits to the Malala Foundation). In Fall 2016 the book publishing arm of the New York Quarterly Foundation, NYQ Books, will issue his collection The World as Is: New & Selected Poems 1972–2015. He teaches in and directs the Arts & Culture program for the University of Denver’s University College and lives with his wife, Iyengar yoga instructor Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver.