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...
View ArticleOn 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....
View ArticlePoetry 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...
View ArticleHugh’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....
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleThoreau 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePoem: “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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