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A former poet in the schools, Hutchison said that great public school teachers fostered his love of poetry. As Colorado's Poet Laureate, he plans to empower teachers to integrate poetry in the classroom.
On April 20, 1914, the National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of striking miners and their families. What does it mean today?
Colorado College Professor Dave Mason has been the state's poet laureate for roughly two months. He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse-novel...