Andrea L. Hackbarth

It’s chapbook release day! Get my weird little hybrid prose-poem thing from @smallharborpub.bsky.social 🎶🌊 www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/wa...

“If you have, like, five different-colored beanies,” Edwards says, “you can probably be 1,000 different birds.” My new costume: 1,000 different birds.

What, mine eyes doth see? The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington, Francis McDormand & Brendan Gleeson, directed by Joel Coen as if by Welles possessed, one foot in film, one theater. Silhouettes galore. No mannered elocution. Treachery in blood. Shakespeare for the people.

In celebration I’m gonna spend all day reading these instead of doing any other life responsibilities.

Oh hells yeah Anne Carson!

It’s October 1st, which means I finally get to dig into this used bookstore find, which I’ve been holding onto since July. I think I read Frankenstein years ago, but it’s possible I only read it through societal osmosis. I guess we’ll find out!

The real question is: Do you eat them by the gluttonous handful or do you carefully bite off each section, convincing yourself that each color tastes different?

Really excellent reporting. And excellent choice of video still.

The most interesting part of this article is buried below the “read more” button. The indigenous folks in the area have known about this cat for generations! They’re like “yeah, that’s the tilcayo 🤷🏻‍♀️” Maybe the rest of us, scientists in particular, should start listening harder to those folks.

Since we’re all apparently answering this… I think 20 y/o me would be over the moon that I’m actually living in Alaska now and have published some things, but largely confused by a lot of other things in my life.

The “Bazzy Tap”!! Incorporating that into my lexicon immediately.

Yes, thank you. I scream inside every time I see that note. And then I die just a little bit more when it comes up at the top of my own creative manuscript…

Reading one goat alt-text per day as a kind of devotional to keep my spirits up.

This is, I think, the one and only Wendell Berry poem I've ever really read. And maybe I'm missing out on other great lines. But honestly, as a poet, if I can write one poem in my life that people remember and recite and share and *feel* something about I will consider that a wild success.

or just, my god, hold anything at all

What a ducking day at the fair! I mean, look at this lovely lady, straight out of Beatrix Potter's English countryside! (She obviously got lured away by a fox and has lost her bonnet and apron, poor thing.)

One thing nobody has considered is how this messes up the acronym I learned as a kid to remember the names of the Great Lakes: HOMES. HAMES? Or SHAME, I guess, which I suppose is appropriate…

Looked up from this to see the fog start rolling in over the neighborhood rooftops. The weather is really doing the work this week framing these deaths 😕

As good a day as any to buy this:

Read the news, told my 10yo, who said "who?" to which I belted out "Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeene," which he understood. Then I put on this slow version and listened to it on the porch with the fall rain and tried not to dissolve into a puddle. This is a hard loss.

Well that’s fun. Wonder how long it would’ve take the oil companies to do anything if not for that anonymous pilot…

The blueberries (and crowberries) were abundant today!

Today’s thrift store find. Loving the hubris of Mr. Bernstein and his three faces.

“AI is a turd mountain” pretty much sums it all up.

Happy Right to Read Day to all those who celebrate (the freedom to read and against censorship)! uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

Stop what you're doing and listen to/watch this right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Checking in from lovely Wasilla, AK.

Don't get my hopes up like that, TBQ.

As someone raising a young boy and always questioning how to best help him grow to be a good man, I appreciate this thoughtful thread so much.

Another data point in the “everyone is 12 (or under)” convo: I was answering some questions my 10yo had about the war, trying to explain who is attacking who and why, and he interrupts to say, “So, like what I do with my Lego guys?” And yes, exactly that.

Yes, the world is burning, but you can still get your MFA, and in Alaska nonetheless! (I mean, why not? After all, the world is burning...) Come read and write and frolic in the fireweed with me and our other amazing faculty and students this summer 😎

Presidents’ Day? Nah. Elizabeth Peratrovich Day? Yes please!

I’m not crying. You’re crying. 🥺

Just a few neighborly messages from a women’s restroom stall at the Cancun Airport, where I’m waiting for my flight to ICE infested MSP. Fun world we live in these days…

Super awesome to be en route to one Latin American country while your government is starting a war with another Latin American country. Definitely makes me feel safe and good about the world.

Quite chuffed (and apparently British) to see my name and book on this list! (Scroll down almost all the way and you'll find it...). Tons of great-looking books on this list - and we should all be buying all of them for ourselves and for gifts!

It's Small Business Saturday, so time to do a little self-promotion... My chapbook is available through bookshop.org, or you can go to your local bookstore and ask them to order it (available through Ingram for bookstores). It'd make a great gift for any pianists or prose-poem lovers in your life!

Happy quakesgiving from AK 🌎🦃

Love being woken up by the earth at 6:30 on a Saturday.

Whenever I get to see a good light show I like to try to get my brain to forget all the science I know and just let myself be awed by the unknown.

What fresh hell is this??? For reference, the “research” this AI has supposedly turned into an analogy is a couple of poems published in a university-linked literary journal. Like, I’m kind of curious to see what kind of “analogy” it made out of my lines… but also, WTF? Not today, Satan.

Also works for Monday reset.