old peace corps logo reading "The absence of war is not peace"

Volunteer Archive

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 …

On the Great Silk Road

“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 …

The U.S. Poetry Academy

The U.S. Poetry Academy Alime Sadikova was one of the smartest, most ambitious young women in Jizzakh, and one of the smartest, most ambitious women I had ever met. She …