Max Garland Max Garland comes to us as a part of the generous 'American Life in Poetry' project by Ted Kooser & The Poetry Foundation. Life in poetry is a free newsletter for poetry publications and allpoetry is a free community to encourage & educate poets. Contact us for more info or to be an allpoetry mentor.Read more → American Life in Poetry: Column 730 by Ted Kooser Is it worse to live in a city where you can't see a big storm coming until it's right on top of you, or to be out on the plains where you can see it coming for almost too long? I like this long look at an approaching and then passing storm by Max Garland, who lives in Wisconsin. It's from his fine book, The Word We Used For It, from the University of Wisconsin Press.