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Poetry Review: “The Mountains Stood in Haze” by Emily Dickinson
There are few poets I admire as much as Emily Dickinson. There are also few as important to American poetry and American letters. Yet MontanaWriter has not reviewed a single Dickinson poem. Why the...
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Poetry Review: “Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith” by Mary Oliver
The tradition of the nature poem in American Literature is as old as American poetry itself. In a land of vast distances and grand landscapes, nature imprints itself “naturally” into the American...
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Poetry Review: “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
My first vacation in a year put us in a cabin in the woods without internet access of any kind. Since I have been transitioning to the cloud in most everything I do, I suddenly found myself without...
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Poetry Review: “Beginning” by James Wright
(photo by m.a.h. hinton) Fall has come again to the North Country. Leaves are turning, days growing cooler. The long, dark days of winter are coming. Yesterday I posted for the first time since August....
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Now Reading: Denise Levertov
Over the years, I have returned quite often to Denise Levertov. Usually in small chunks. I had an early volume of her Collected Poems that I would dip into every now and then. But searching my shelves...
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Now Reading: Mary Oliver
There is only one question: how to love this world. ~ cf. “Spring” by Mary Oliver Mary Oliver needs no introduction. Her books have consistently been the top-selling poetry books in America. And with...
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