The world opens up and devours you into a cold darkness you are reborn a shred of light illuminates the endless cold night and you travel towards the glimmer of hope. The light shudders and fades away before you get too close. Lost in the abyss again. Thank you for reading my work, I…
Author: Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet
Alina Happy Hansen is a writer, poet, and blogger based in San Francisco. Besides writing nearly 24/7 and reading stacks of books, Alina enjoys watching classic horror films and listening to Stoner Metal. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in English with a Minor in Writing and Rhetoric Studies from The University of Utah.
Book Review: Making a Poem by Miller Williams
I recently finished reading, Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It by Miller Williams who was a former inaugural poet for the Clinton administration. This was an interesting read in that Williams looked at writing poetry from angles I had not previously considered such as The Writer…
Free Hand #123 (The Body of the Sun)
Following the sun down into the dirt the mountain envelope and swallow it whole how do eyes look when blinded by such light? the sun as a body and as a source an existence where lines are blurred. Thank you for reading my work! I hope you will return in the future! -Alina
Free Hand #122 (Snow Melting)
The snow clings to the cement as it melts away trickling down into the gutter. The gutter a new home for all those melted snowflake bodies. Thank you for reading my work! I hope you will return in the future. -Alina
Personal Response: Surviving 2017 in the Trump Era
Back in November, I made a brief announcement post that I was planning on writing my personal response to ‘Surviving 2017 in the Trump Era’ and the reoccurring theory that college students are being brainwashed into becoming liberals. This is exactly that. NOTE: This is my own reflection. I am not assuming a voice for…