Posts Tagged Poetry Contest
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston You may know by now that I put in about 30 years of radio and television broadcasting, reporting farm market prices and situations in agriculture and agribusiness. I continue to listen to radio programs on the farm scene. A very early warmth this year brought, among other topics...
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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 Mary Tryon, a New York poet, submitted to a Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest some years back, but did not win. As chairman, I would select good poetry like Mary’s, write about it, and send my opinion and the poem(s) to the poet. Mary began to write poems in 2007. I don’t rec...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I am cash register honest, and I am also a human and a poet. Lots of us are the first two in these qualities. Fewer are poets. what I mean by this first thought is we have a compulsion to be as honest as possible. “As possible” is the key. Think back on times “honest a...
