Andrea L. Hackbarth
@thelostintent.bsky.social
(she/her) writer and editor; piano tech; Minnesotan by birth, Alaskan by choice; mother (of the single sort); general skeptic; burn it all down hybrid prose-poem chapbook, “waveforms: a short course in piano tuning,” available from @harboreditions
Happy Right to Read Day to all those who celebrate (the freedom to read and against censorship)! uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...
Right to Read Day
The right to read is under attack. On Right to Read Day, April 20, 2026, take action to support your library and protect your freedom to read.
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Stop what you're doing and listen to/watch this right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
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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.
Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC@lauritadianita.bsky.social · 5mo ago🧵1/ For young men confused about how to be a good, non-toxic man while also being "masculine" or for parents wondering how to guide their boys towards role models who are good allies to women & gender minorities while retaining hetero masculine street cred, I recommend u look towards Ryan Coogler.
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!
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6mo ago
February 14th in the South Pacific always extra festive 💘
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!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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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!
waveforms: a short course in piano tuning
a short course in piano tuning
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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.
I want to point out that the kid holding the No Kings sign (which he made before the last No Kings protest), is my 9 (almost 10)-year-old son. He's been doing this since he was not even a year old, when he went with me to the 2016 Women's March.
Andrea L. Hackbarth@thelostintent.bsky.social · 10mo agoDeep red Wasilla, Alaska. #nokings
I can’t help but compare the lack of national coverage this seems to be getting with the excessive coverage of houses falling into the sea in NC’s outer banks. The situation in western AK looks so bad right now. These are people’s homes and whole communities, just totally destroyed.
ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer@markspringer.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe situation continues to get grimmer. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/10/15/n...
There are So many ways to help people who have lost everything. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...
Here's how you can help survivors of the Western Alaska storm
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have killed one person, left two missing, displaced hundreds and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.
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Coming November 4! 🔥 DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is a fearless, sonnet-charged response to our turbulent times—melding activism, myth, and fierce intelligence into poetry that demands to be heard. Learn more: 👉 www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
Among all the terrible shit happening in this country, it was so nice to wake up to some positive local (red state!) election results. Palmer and Fairbanks both elected liberal mayors! (I don’t know enough about the other towns’ races/candidates though.)
LIVE: Fairbanks mayor concedes as more than 20 Alaskan communities hold elections
Almost two dozen municipalities and boroughs across Alaska held local elections Tuesday, asking voters to decide on new mayors and propositions on the ballot.
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Alaska folx, go get your vote on!
Pat Race@pat.alaskarobotics.com · 11mo agoMunicipal elections day in Alaska!
Oh, you mean the America my forefathers created by… invading a foreign land? That one? Yeah…
