Month: October 2017

University of Utah Student Dead After Carjacking

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Today classes are canceled at the University of Utah due to the death of student ChenWei Guo last night during a carjacking in the Red Butte Canyon.

ChenWei Guo (Photo courtesy University of Utah)
ChenWei Guo (photo source: sltrib.com)

The suspect, Austin J. Boutain, is still at large and police are searching.

Austin J. Boutain (Photo courtesy Marion County, Ohio, jail)
Austin J. Boutain (photo source: sltrib.com)

The University of Utah’s President released a message in response to the event. More information is provided by The Salt Lake Tribune in the following article,  http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/31/shots-fired-near-university-of-utah/ as well as The Daily Utah Chronicle http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2017/10/30/shooting-red-butte-canyon-puts-u-housing-lockdown/

This a tragic day for the Salt Lake City community and the University of Utah. Support for students is provided in counseling centers all over the UofU. Everyone is impacted by this senseless act of violence. My deepest condolences to the family and friends of ChenWei Guo.

-Alina

UPDATE: Austin J. Boutain was found and taken into custody yesterday.

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Free Hand #91 (Forgetting to the Beat of War Drums)

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

My poems have been all over the place recently, this is no exception. 

 

A rhythm pulsating and cold, let us return to the hell of

war drums in our minds. The line that traces and seeks

me out, to write itself upon me. Memories that are

torn up and discarded or burned. I cannot retrieve them.

 

Thank you for reading my writing! I hope you will return in the future! 

-Alina 

Free Hand #90 (Sylvia and others)

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

The words in my mouth grow stale

and I think of Sylvia, and think of Woolf

how they countered so much sadness to keep on writing

how hard it is to write, like Adrienne, like Austen, and Bronte

to keep going until there is nothing left but words and passion.

 

Thank you for reading my work! I hope you will return in the future!

-Alina