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FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Shelley on Poetry
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Back in the North Country
II am back in Minnesota after spending a week with my daughter and son-in-law in Brooklyn. Just a few weeks from Opening Day and we have snow here. I have mentioned here before that I grew up in...
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A Thaw and Re-Reading
Here in the North Country, we had a few days of 50-degree weather, but yesterday it snowed again. Those few days of warmth, though, were a foretaste of the feast to come. We are told that ICE is...
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UTTERANCES OF THE HEART
In the rabbinical tradition, at times of calamity and great suffering, Jews are advised to read three books: Jeremiah Lamentations Job The fact that the most important passages of these books were...
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Carl Sandburg on Poetry
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. – Carl Sandburg
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POETRY REVIEW: “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (b. 1951) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the 23rd United States Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. Her poetry is generally characterized by:...
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Umberto Eco on Poetry
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. -Umberto Eco
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Lucille Clifton on Poetry
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. -Lucille Clifton
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Wallace Stevens on Poetry
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. -Wallace Stevens
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FRIDAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Dylan Thomas on Poetry
W.B. Yeats Statue, Sligo (photo by m.a.h. hinton) The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. -Dylan Thomas
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ESSENTIAL POETS
“Yeats Statue, Sligo” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) I have been thinking about essential poets. Poets that I feel must be read. Or better yet, that I must re-read. So I made for myself a quick list of...
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I Want Poetry to Be Beautiful
“Summer Writing” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) I want poetry to be beautiful. Life is hard. I need to know that there is something beautiful that I cannot yet see. When you have depression, and the world is...
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Thoreau Thursday
“Junco River” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) 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...
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On Birds and Daughters
“Autumn Ducks” (photo by 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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Montana Poems
“Mountain Remembering” can be found in Montana Poems. The introduction to this poem, but not the poem itself, was previously published here. “Fishing Hat” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) Fly-fishing and...
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With a Pencil and My Ear
(photo by 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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Poetry Review: “Last Answers” by Carl Sandburg
Regular readers of MontanaWriter know that inspired by a visit this summer to Galesburg, Illinois, and Carl Sandburg’s birthplace and burial site I have been reading my way through Sandburg’s Collected...
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Book Review: Homage to Robert Frost by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek...
This is the fourth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at“Poets on Poetry.” Robert Frost is the most American of all American poets. He is American...
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Book Review: Essays and Introductions by W.B. Yeats
This is the third book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” In my mid-twenties, I spent a year reading all of Yeats books that I...
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