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.
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.
Free Hand #92 (the crack in the wall)
The crack in the wall, it begins to tear and crumbles over the years. Th pain fades and chips off in large chunks, littering the floor. Continual decay. Thank you for reading my work! I hope you will return in the future! -Alina
Free Hand #91 (Forgetting to the Beat of War Drums)
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…
Free Hand #90 (Sylvia and others)
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…
Free Hand #89 (What the World Does to Me)
What the world does to me, how can I be anything other than what you see? Thank you for reading my work! I hope you return in the future! -Alina