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With a pencil and your ear

(copyright m.a.h. hinton) A number of readers have told me that they like my Seven Basic Rules on How NOT to Read a Poem. Some have written to me that they have forwarded it on to friends or fellow...

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On a quiet heart and a quiet mind

Quiet Landscape (copyright © m.a.h. hinton) For the last few weeks, MontanaWriter has been quiet. Silent except for one posting as I have been struggling to quiet my heart and mind enough to write....

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Poetry recordings

…Reading one’s own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet’s tongue...

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Hugh’s Journals

The feature Hugh’s Journals appears here each Sunday. For some basic background on Rev. Hugh Bebb Jones and his notebooks click here. Hugh’s notebooks have a number of poems in them… both good and bad....

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On poetry, John Wayne, and jazz

One of the most remarkable things about blogging remains the number of strangers that email me that they have read something I have posted and like it. I assume that there are many who do not like...

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On fall and time and letting go

Sumac Red From time to time I come across an article about “the writing life.” Occasionally I will even read one, or parts at least. When I do, I seldom recognize much that is familiar from my own...

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On birds and daughters

Autumn Fowl (copyright © m.a.h. hinton) Autumn has come to the North Country. The ash trees in the front of my house have lost most of their leaves. The locust in back is still mainly green but it is...

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Thoreau Thursday

Junco River Here in the North Country early winter has arrived. A cold day of grey rain and big white flakes of snow that melted as soon as they hit the ground reminded us of what the next months will...

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The Ugly Truth

I am not a verbal person. I am a writer. I was born with a birth defect to my ears. Once discovered, when I was 2 or 3, doctors were able to correct most of my hearing with a series of operations over...

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Poem: “Small Pleasures” by Mark Hinton

Water & Stone I (copyright © m.a.h. hinton) I continue the process of typing up poems on my Smith-Corona Super-Speed and putting them into a notebook I am creating. This small poem is called “Small...

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