Three glowing reviews of Laurence Hutchman’s The House of Shifting Time
I’ve followed the career of Laurence Hutchman through many books and years. It is gratifying to see that he’s lost none of his expressive genius. - Paul Hedeen on Goodreads
Transit Windsor features poetry on the pandemic for Poetry Month
For Poetry Month, Transit Windsor, the City of Windsor and Black Moss Press are collaborating to feature short poems about the pandemic and its impact on city buses. See them all here.
A Writer Needs a Desk
If it might be said of a writer, as it would certainly be said of me, a writer needs a desk. Though writing well rarely if ever comes down to a mere matter of good furniture, from the very beginning of the beginning of my literary aspirations I dreamed a dream of myself seeing myself toiling over a blank page, gripping a pencil in my hand with the sentient movement of my arm held up by the polished grain of well-crafted oak.
On the use of commas in poetry
One of the things that I should probably point out is that poetry is not, how shall we put it, like an undergraduate essay. Poetry relies on sonics -- the sound of the words, the lines, and especially (with the type of poetry I write) the syntax.