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Andrea
@thelostintent.bsky.social
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writer and editor; piano tech; Minnesotan by birth, Alaskan by choice; mother (of the single sort); general skeptic (she/her); burn it all down

hybrid prose-poem chapbook, “waveforms: a short course in piano tuning,” available from @harboreditions
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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.
Northern lights in green, yellow and red shining up over a river bed and mountains, with some white human lights below.
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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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.
Screen shot of an email stating that Academia.edu’s AI has “turned your research into an easy to understand analogy” and inviting me to “explore impact hub.” Gross.
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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We had frogs, unicorns, chickens, a capybara, and this delightful little dragon/human mixed family - all in organized, joyful splendor. How can we not win???
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Deep red Wasilla, Alaska. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Tiny fall fungus for your viewing pleasure.
Close up of grey, deeply furrowed tree bark with tiny red-orange round fungi growing in one crack.
October 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Oh, you mean the America my forefathers created by… invading a foreign land? That one? Yeah…
Stupid propaganda from Homeland Security. Close-up picture of the Statue of Liberty’s face with the words “Protect Her” over it and text above saying, “Recapture the America your forefathers created. Prevent foreign infiltration.”
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Extremely honored to be included in this issue of Prairie Schooner alongside some truly amazing writers!
(and yes, this is the winter 2024 issue… which just came out… they’re a bit behind in their pub schedule…)
September 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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rabbit rabbit rabbit
“Three rabbits” painting by Mary Russell Smith, 1969. One black, one brown, one white rabbit, chomping on apples and veggies like good fall harvest, first of the month rabbitses.
September 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Left Alaska 5 days ago and drove the whole AK Highway just to find the ugliest camping set up ever conceived.
A cybertruck pretending to be a real camping vehicle, with a tent on its back end, hanging on for dear life.
July 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Inside of every child (or… mine, at least) there are two wolves…
Child’s drawing of rainbow stripes on a white background, with three small happy smiling rainbows scattered around. This is the child-wolf you want, but that only shows up in glimpses. Child’s drawing of a Minecraft style tnt block with a Minecraft person standing ready to set it off. This is the wolf-child you are given most days.
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Love finding poetry in the wild! Ada Limón at the Anchorage Museum’s excellent “Cold War to the Cosmos” exhibit.
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Arching under the night sky inky with black expansiveness, we point to the planets we know, we pin quick wishes on stars. From earth, we read the sky as if it is an unerring book of the universe, expert and evident. Still, there are mysteries below our sky: the whale song, the songbird singing its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree. We are creatures of constant awe, curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom, at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow. And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water, each drop of rain, each rivulet, each pulse, each vein. O second moon, we, too, are made of water, of vast and beckoning seas. We, too, are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need to call out through the dark. "In Praise of Mystery" by Ada Limón Released at the Library of Congress on June 1, 2023, in celebration of the poem's engraving on NASA's Europa Clipper. Copyright Ada Limón, 2023. (Below the photo is unreadable text about “Art in Space” and a photo of a man in a suit looking at a blue globe on a white pedestal.)
June 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Alaska, represent.
June 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Happy Earth Day from this tulip, who recognizes an opportunity for metaphor when she sees it.
A single green tulip leaf, sprouting up through a hole in a dead dried brown leaf on the ground. There’s a big log to the left and a rock to the right. Some grass in the background, lots of brown dirt.
April 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Anchorage Museum has a Georgia O’Keefe on loan temporarily and I went to see it yesterday. It’s just a brown line on a white background, but it’s a really freakin beautiful brown line.
Photo of O’Keefe’s “winter road” in which a creamy white background is interrupted by a thick brown line that curves up from the bottom of the frame to the right and gets thinner as it continues around to the left. Just before the top left corner it curves out to the right again a few inches, then takes a sharp turn back left and up off the canvas. The whole thing gives the illusion of looking up at a pregnant belly with a small breast at the top. It’s gorgeous.
March 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Finally got my author copies of my chapbook. Feels pretty cool to hold them in my hands 😎
A stack of 25 chapbooks spread out on a wood table, sunlight brightening their top edges.
March 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Uh... Did Elon and his stooges somehow accidentally (on purpose) kill the Alaska ferry website?
Screenshot from the Alaska Marine Highway (ferry) website, giving the sad page face with the text "This site can't be reached https://dot.alaska.gov/amhs/index.shtml is unreachable. ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE"
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Pretty good turn out in my little town, here in the reddest part of AK.
February 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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It’s chapbook release day! Get my weird little hybrid prose-poem thing from @smallharborpub.bsky.social
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www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/wa...
Yellow box showing a book cover with image of a piano keyboard, a woman’s face in profile, and mountains and trees. With the following text: NOW AVAILABLE waveforms: a short course in piano tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth The first thing to understand is movement: the instrument's magic is motion and nothing more." so begins Andrea Hackbarth's Waveforms, and from there the reader harmonizes into the various, ranging, beautiful music of this book, which is part philosophical investigation harmony, part familial bewilderment, part detailed explication of a piano-tuner's work. To observe to a poet share the details of an old craft such as piano tuning by one skilled in both it and poetry is a gift beyond measure. What does it mean to listen, to tune? What are the tools used? What drifts through the mind of the tuner as she uses her tines, felt, and rubber? Andrea Hackbarth gives us all this, and more. -Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Toward Antarctica, editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
February 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Picked up @amytan.bsky.social‘s Backyard Bird Chronicles to give to my dad, but started reading it myself, and then my 9yo started reading it and got really into it, so now I probably have to buy another copy. Such a lovely daily meditation on the world- a palate cleanse from all the other chaos.
February 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I just saw that too. I’m glad it’s happening. Unfortunately, my state capitol is a plane ride away, and that’s just not happening for me. Maybe someone will organize a secondary location protest here on the road system.
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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California burning, the south covered in snow, and Alaska flooding. Yes, in liquid water. In January. But let’s continue to pretend climate change isn’t a thing.
A main intersection of my little town of Palmer, Alaska, totally flooded and impassable.
January 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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First art museum visit of 2025: Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Pictured is “Call to Arms” by Elana Mann, which really called to me (if you will). Here’s to art, in all forms, as a mode of resistance.
January 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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My kid makes better lines with magnetic poetry tiles than I do with my poor old brain.
Grey metal board with magnetic poetry tiles that say “diamond was a gift from mother life yet beauty could crush it” and below, the scattered words “gown language meat”
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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On this 3-degree morning, I’m thankful for my warm living room with a mountain view and for the Alaska friendsgiving celebration to come this afternoon ❄️🍗👯
View out the window through parted curtains, showing a dawn-blue sky, outline of pioneer peak, frosty tree-branches, and one glowing streetlight.
November 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Ya don’t say…
Image from Washington post. Headline: Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters. Photo of Harris at a podium. Sub-head: A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM