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Poetry Review: “The Clod and the Pebble” by William Blake
“Creator” by William Blake Thanksgiving is past. It is the first Sunday in Advent. The themes for today’s readings are light and hope. William Blake seems appropriate somehow. “The Clod and Pebble” is...
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Book Review: Poetry and Ambition by Donald Hall
This is the first book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” The best way to learn about poetry is to read poetry… and to read poets talking about it. With that in mind, over the next few...
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On the Pile Next to My Chair
A regular reader of MontanaWriter recently emailed me asking me what I was reading these days. Since it is in my nature to read more books at one time than I can quickly recall, and since it is also in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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