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12/11/2022 I Need a Vacation 1673 Light Verse
12/11/2022 Moonlight In Winter 488 Haiku
12/11/2022 A Trip To the Doctor 774 Rhyme
12/11/2022 Reliability Is Hard To Come By 429 Pantoum
12/11/2022 Credit Where Credit Is Due 507 Light Verse
12/10/2022 Once In Your Life 494 Light Verse
12/10/2022 Around the Us On a Greyhound Bus - Part One 615 Narrative
12/10/2022 Follow the Fire 467 Rhyme
12/10/2022 Sandy Beaches - a Parody 602 Lyric
12/10/2022 Putin's Predicament 328 Limerick
12/10/2022 Love Finds a Way 425 Triolet
12/10/2022 Pathway To Peace 510 Villanelle
12/09/2022 Santa Is Not Jesus's Name 545 Rhyme
12/09/2022 I Resolve 486 Monorhyme
12/09/2022 Autumn Still-Life 608 Free verse
12/08/2022 Living In the Country 591 Quintain (English)
12/08/2022 All Things Change 350 Couplet
12/08/2022 Another Wintry Day 294 Triolet
12/08/2022 On Looking At a Dali 515 Terzanelle
12/08/2022 On Bullying 394 Couplet
12/08/2022 A Little Christmas Poem 368 Rhyme
12/08/2022 Freedom Pub 349 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/07/2022 Come, Let Us Sing 367 Lyric
12/07/2022 Sing We Now a Song of Christmas 408 Acrostic
12/07/2022 What I Believe 665 Terza Rima
12/07/2022 Tomorrow Is Promising 355 Villanelle
12/07/2022 Dishing Out Nasty 496 Light Verse
12/07/2022 Every Day Christmas 306 Free verse
12/07/2022 Icy Crystals On Grass 401 Haiku
12/06/2022 On Sighing 435 Terzanelle
12/06/2022 No Time For Flip-Flops 338 Senryu
12/06/2022 Memorable Occasions 302 Senryu
12/06/2022 Christmas In Paris With Gentle Snow Falling 500 Rhyme
12/06/2022 Choir Practice 553 Verse
12/06/2022 A December Memento 343 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/06/2022 Unnecessary Words 359 Quatrain
12/05/2022 Paris At Christmas 520 Senryu
12/05/2022 A Child Is Born 384 Acrostic
12/05/2022 On Criticizing Others 935 Villanelle
12/05/2022 Happiness Is a Cherished Memory Revisited 556 Quatern
12/05/2022 Sledding 312 Tanka
12/05/2022 Tears of Joy 390 Haiku
12/05/2022 Some Children Won'T Be Around For Christmas 412 Pantoum
12/04/2022 My 81st Birthday 425 Triolet
12/04/2022 Time Change 236 Haiku
12/04/2022 A Christmas Gift 345 Monoku
12/04/2022 Tragedy At Sea 306 Epitaph
12/04/2022 Icicles - Vanishing Wealth 300 Haiku
12/04/2022 Promoters of Hate 382 Quatrain
12/04/2022 Original Best Poet Poem 500 Pantoum
12/04/2022 Need I Say More 355 Quatrain
12/03/2022 My Best Poet List 698 Pantoum
12/03/2022 Dot To Dot 471 Pantoum
12/03/2022 Anticipating Christmas 393 Free verse
12/03/2022 Talking About My Birthday 345 Free verse
12/03/2022 Facial Hair 391 Monorhyme
12/03/2022 Consider the Lilies 497 Triolet
12/03/2022 African Poinsettia 472 Free verse
12/03/2022 Flowery Words 395 Monoku
12/02/2022 The Last Carrot 335 Light Verse
12/02/2022 Poinsettia 466 Acrostic
12/02/2022 On Disliking Surprises 339 Pantoum
12/02/2022 Christmas Card 336 Triolet
12/02/2022 Christmas Afternoon 450 Quintain (English)
12/01/2022 Fairy Castles 500 Quintain (Sicilian)
12/01/2022 Sounds of the Season 497 Triolet
12/01/2022 December Observations 334 Rhyme
12/01/2022 The New Christmas Tree 335 Light Verse
11/30/2022 Love Conquers All 373 Triolet
11/30/2022 Colors In the Sky 380 Free verse
11/30/2022 Astral Travel 343 Rhyme
11/30/2022 Presents Under the Tree 714 Villanelle
11/29/2022 Death By Dynamite 503 Epitaph
11/29/2022 On Self-Sufficiency 558 Quintilla
11/29/2022 Magic In the Air 478 Triolet
11/29/2022 Sleigh Ride 528 Villanelle
11/29/2022 Sweet Smells of Christmas 498 Rhyme
11/28/2022 Politics At the Dinner Table 422 Quintilla
11/28/2022 On Portraiture 368 Pantoum
11/28/2022 Grieving At Christmas 622 Quatern
11/27/2022 Missus Claus's Fear 489 Limerick
11/27/2022 Saint Nicholas 397 Limerick
11/27/2022 Never Give Up 509 Pantoum
11/27/2022 Sincere Suggestions 419 Didactic
11/27/2022 My Final Word 494 Quintain (Sicilian)
11/27/2022 Winter Robin 485 Pantoum
11/26/2022 Late Birds 469 Haiku
11/26/2022 The I-G-A-B 376 Light Verse
11/26/2022 Identical Twins 384 Limerick
11/26/2022 A Page Unturned 403 Villanelle
11/26/2022 Looking For Gems 484 Quintain (Sicilian)
11/26/2022 Bright Day In November 363 Triolet
11/26/2022 Be Who You Are 557 Monoku
11/26/2022 Tomorrow Is Promising 391 Pantoum
11/25/2022 Not All Change Is Good 504 Quatrain
11/25/2022 As I Look Back 509 Monorhyme
11/24/2022 Thanksgiving Sin 389 Light Verse
11/24/2022 Thanksgiving Stuffed 346 Light Verse
11/23/2022 How Rudolph Lost His Job 363 Quatrain
11/23/2022 I Walk Through Shadow 471 Rondeau Redouble
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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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