Posts Tagged Musings
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Although I do not focus on lifestyle, lives and styles of poetry and poets have been subject to more scrutiny than their poems over time. I want to reflect on our lifestyles some, for your October column of Max’s Musings. Late summer, I was in a bookstore to search out and pur...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston When we separated a month ago, I had begun telling the tale of my connection with published poet, Mary Tryon, of Nassau, New York. She was not published when I first encountered her as a contestant in the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest some years in the past. We exchanged lett...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston One of the things that stays with me, so far, is the arithmetic I learned in primary school. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Fractions came later, percent came later than that, as I recall. This column on poetry and some other things begins its eighth year. That amounts to 84...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The art of poetry seems to be divided, in fact, and in fancy with line endings and the spacing of the resulting verse. But there is also a ferocity involved. First, there is a ferocious knowledge of language and its usages. A dictionary refers to ferocious as wild, the way we usu...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston When poet Walt Whitman becomes the subject of discussions or conversations at a literary gathering, many of those listening can claim to not understand. Whitman, individual that he was, tossed some poets aside because they had not used American language, words used then and now a...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Not long ago, as ideas of summer sprouted, reading projects for adults cropped up in the media. Some newspapers and magazines feature new novels and such put forward by some “expert.” My idea of reading for the summer is a newspaper at a leisurely pace, or like me, a subscrib...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I have not searched the columns I’ve composed for the 50+ crowd, but I don’t think I have ever stated how I got my start in poetry. I am a writer and have been since I was 13, 60 years in my past. Many of you know about forgetting stuff that far back. Fast forward. I was...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston April showers bring May flowers. That is true, but what else is true is that pretty perennials push into the sun and fade, many by May. Trips to the garden centers at big boxes. Those standing on their own over decades of plant life and good service are backups. At our homes, now...
