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12/11/20222296 Light Verse
12/11/2022654 Haiku
12/11/2022991 Rhyme
12/11/2022648 Pantoum
12/11/2022698 Light Verse
12/10/2022660 Light Verse
12/10/2022833 Narrative
12/10/2022580 Rhyme
12/10/2022769 Lyric
12/10/2022440 Limerick
12/10/2022588 Triolet
12/10/2022657 Villanelle
12/09/2022693 Rhyme
12/09/2022699 Monorhyme
12/09/2022729 Free verse
12/08/2022721 Quintain (English)
12/08/2022592 Couplet
12/08/2022393 Triolet
12/08/2022632 Terzanelle
12/08/2022565 Couplet
12/08/2022560 Rhyme
12/08/2022520 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/07/2022568 Lyric
12/07/2022538 Acrostic
12/07/2022780 Terza Rima
12/07/2022534 Villanelle
12/07/2022671 Light Verse
12/07/2022383 Free verse
12/07/2022514 Haiku
12/06/2022625 Terzanelle
12/06/2022507 Senryu
12/06/2022407 Senryu
12/06/2022686 Rhyme
12/06/2022673 Verse
12/06/2022570 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/06/2022482 Quatrain
12/05/2022840 Senryu
12/05/2022490 Acrostic
12/05/20221187 Villanelle
12/05/2022706 Quatern
12/05/2022433 Tanka
12/05/2022527 Haiku
12/05/2022621 Pantoum
12/04/2022595 Triolet
12/04/2022340 Haiku
12/04/2022451 Monoku
12/04/2022465 Epitaph
12/04/2022413 Haiku
12/04/2022507 Quatrain
12/04/2022784 Pantoum
12/04/2022533 Quatrain
12/03/2022902 Pantoum
12/03/2022647 Pantoum
12/03/2022517 Free verse
12/03/2022477 Free verse
12/03/2022493 Monorhyme
12/03/2022604 Triolet
12/03/2022650 Free verse
12/03/2022525 Monoku
12/02/2022485 Light Verse
12/02/2022737 Acrostic
12/02/2022470 Pantoum
12/02/2022431 Triolet
12/02/2022636 Quintain (English)
12/01/2022641 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/01/2022591 Triolet
12/01/2022439 Rhyme
12/01/2022445 Light Verse
11/30/2022471 Triolet
11/30/2022464 Free verse
11/30/2022454 Rhyme
11/30/2022993 Villanelle
11/29/2022616 Epitaph
11/29/2022694 Quintilla
11/29/2022608 Triolet
11/29/2022649 Villanelle
11/29/2022753 Rhyme
11/28/2022530 Quintilla
11/28/2022463 Pantoum
11/28/2022815 Quatern
11/27/2022590 Limerick
11/27/2022619 Limerick
11/27/2022665 Pantoum
11/27/2022554 Didactic
11/27/2022706 Quintain (Sicilian)
11/27/2022677 Pantoum
11/26/2022563 Haiku
11/26/2022505 Light Verse
11/26/2022569 Limerick
11/26/2022539 Villanelle
11/26/2022587 Quintain (Sicilian)
11/26/2022471 Triolet
11/26/2022685 Monoku
11/26/2022476 Pantoum
11/25/2022704 Quatrain
11/25/2022683 Monorhyme
11/24/2022483 Light Verse
11/24/2022475 Light Verse
11/23/2022461 Quatrain
11/23/2022581 Rondeau Redouble
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Quotes

Quote Left "That which makes America greatest is her diversity." --from "Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud in New York Harbor" Quote Right
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Quote Left Convincing empty promises too soon delude. from Thoughts on Inevitability by L. Milton Hankins Quote Right
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Quote Left Beware the clutches of boasting entitlement. Quote Right
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Quote Left "For not being who you were always meant to be is the grossest miscarriage of justice." from a poem by L. Milton Hankins Quote Right
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Quote Left "Self-denial is the pathway to hell on this earth" from a poem by L. Milton Hankins Quote Right
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I was born and raised in the south-central West Virginia. I graduated from Nuttall High School, Lookout, WV in 1959 and went off to Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. After my freshman year, I enlisted in the United States Air Force, where I served for four years in the beautiful state of Hawaii. While there, I attended Jackson College and the University of Hawaii.

Upon my return home to West Virginia, I married and had two exceptional children, Emily and Adam Hankins. Unfortunately, that marriage ended in divorce after about seven years. During those same years, I graduated from the University of Charleston, Charleston, WV, receiving my baccalaureate degree in history.

About this time, I published my first chapbook of poetry, The Lady in the Pink Hat. It was published by Candor Press in 1969.

Between 1968 and 1981, my poems appeared in Christian Century, Writer, The Poet, Cameo, Grit, Quintessence, Author/Poet, Tangent, The American Poet, Prairie Poets, The Baptist Leader, and Parnassus. My poems appeared in the following anthologies:  Major Poets Anthology #6, Prairie Press Books, The Soul and the Singer Anthology, Young Publications, Field of Daisies, Nina Brewer Henry, Editor, Prairie Press Books, and Yearbook of Modern Poetry, 1981, Young Publications,  

Articles and short stories appeared in Hoosier Challenger, Housewife/Writer's Forum, Capper's Weekly, Vegetarian Times, Writer's Digest, Equipping Youth, The West Virginia Hillbilly, The Mountain Laurel, Christian Education Today, Leadership, Christian Leadership, The Final Draft, Writer's World, A Better Life For You, Lifeglow, The Messenger, Collector's News and the Antique Reporter, Writer's Gazette Newsletter, Animal Press, The Central Virginian, Pocket Inspirations, The Preacher's Magazine, Chips Off the Writer's Block, Huckleberry, West Virginia--Then and Now, AIM Magazine, Appalachian Heritage, Fiction Forum, and i:The First Person.

(More recently) I obtained my master's and doctoral degees in Theology at Trinity Theological Seminary. I served churches in West Virginia, Ohio, and Virginia before retiring in 1997.  A compulsive writer, my poetry, articles, short stories, and theological writings have appeared in numerous national journals and periodicals, mentioned previously, and including Biblical Illustrator and the renowned Pulpit Digest. In 1992-1993 I was selected for Who's Who in Religion. I was also elected to the international poetry society, Y Escambi Internationale. One of my poems was read into the Congressional Journal of the United States. I am also a member of Pi Gamma Mu, an honorary sociological fraternity. 

(Even More Recently) I published a book of Appalachian short stories, Ashes on the Snow, and, A Sensible Theology for Thinking People (A retired Southern Baptist minister talks candidly about the Bible, Theology and Contemporary Concerns). For about eight years I wrote a weekly column for the Huntington, WV Herald-Dispatch.

In the past couple of years, some of my poems have appeared in PS: It's Poetry, Arczis Technologies, Inc., Nursery Rhymes & Stories, Eve Roper, Compiler, Kindle Direct Publishing, and PS: It's Still Poetry, Volume II, Arczis Technologies, Inc.

My "A Sensible Look at Genesis" and my autobiograph "A Pedestal in the Closet" remain unpublished. I have edited three doctoral theses and continue to edit poetry chapbooks and short stories for family and friends. 

I have been interviewed on both radio and television. For two years (2016-2017) I published and edited my own website, "A Columnist With a View."

My wife Deborah and I moved to Catlettsburg, Kentucky to operate The Presidents' House Bed and Breakfast, where we remained until we retired a second time and moved to Ashland, Kentucky. My wife Deborah of 35 years died November 22, 2018. In the years since her death, I have been very active on the Poetry Soup and All Poetry websites. 

I continue my work as a freelance writer and editor. I am available for editing projects by contacting me at:  amsmilt@windstream.net


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