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Originally published by Black Heart Magazine: https://blackheartmagazine.com/2016/01/03/2-poems-by-kristen-hoggatt-abader/ Volunteer ArchiveThe Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Archive, JFK Library, Boston File 20, 1965, Tucsonsends Dan off to Iranwith a farewell parade.Flags alightin the …
Originally published by JONAH Magazine: https://jonahmagazine.com/tag/kristen-hoggatt-abader/ Anniversary of My Death Revere Beach, Massachusetts Firm to foam to the water lapping Thank you on this beach,to the storm that won’t die,to …
https://www.thesmartset.com/article11090901/ One of my old columns published by The Smart Set: Only poets read contemporary poetry books, and only poets go to poetry readings. If I become a poet, will …
Here’s my most recent column published by the Arizona Daily Star: https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-mothers-day/article_8dde37d6-bb59-11ec-a71a-af9ecd0a4e0d.html It took me a while to realize how much I love my mother. Probably not unlike many, our …
Lesson 1—“Stress” “What’s the meaning, haboob,in English?” “Haboob?‘Dust storm.’” “This ‘dust storm’ on your facefor two month.” “Oh, you mean‘pimple.’ “Haboobcan also mean ‘pimple.’” “This ‘bimbel’ in your facefor two month.” …
Two girls rise while the other children—95 and counting—liehuddled on mats, sleeping off the strangeness of El Norte.The World Cup is on: Honduras versus some country in Europe they’ve never …
On May 25, 1998, this paper printed a story entitled “Two Sierra Vista students die, a third hurt in I-10 rollover.” I was that third student. After spending a month …
for Gabrielle Giffords Of the five beds in the ICUthe only thing movingwas the damaged brain . I was of two brainswasn’t I?One of them was indisposedI rose to the …
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/tucson-opinion-defining-a-karen-and-ken/article_670deea4-d83c-11eb-8d0f-73c6af3ac589.html The other day, when I was trying to get my son to take his dish to the sink, he replied, “OK, Karen.” Such remarks have been common in my …
“The angels out there,/ what are they?” Stephen Dunn, “Between Angels” One of the few Peace Corps pamphlets I ever read came to my home in Arizona about three weeks …