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Andrea L. Hackbarth

@thelostintent.bsky.social
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(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

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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 8h
It’s October 1st, which means I finally get to dig into this used bookstore find, which I’ve been holding onto since July. I think I read Frankenstein years ago, but it’s possible I only read it through societal osmosis. I guess we’ll find out!
Comic book style cover of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with the doctor and his monster looking appropriately gothic against a dark rainy background.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The real question is: Do you eat them by the gluttonous handful or do you carefully bite off each section, convincing yourself that each color tastes different?
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Really excellent reporting. And excellent choice of video still.
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We Went to Alaska. The Fishing Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The most interesting part of this article is buried below the “read more” button. The indigenous folks in the area have known about this cat for generations! They’re like “yeah, that’s the tilcayo 🤷🏻‍♀️” Maybe the rest of us, scientists in particular, should start listening harder to those folks.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Since we’re all apparently answering this… I think 20 y/o me would be over the moon that I’m actually living in Alaska now and have published some things, but largely confused by a lot of other things in my life.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The “Bazzy Tap”!! Incorporating that into my lexicon immediately.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes, thank you. I scream inside every time I see that note. And then I die just a little bit more when it comes up at the top of my own creative manuscript…
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reading one goat alt-text per day as a kind of devotional to keep my spirits up.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is, I think, the one and only Wendell Berry poem I've ever really read. And maybe I'm missing out on other great lines. But honestly, as a poet, if I can write one poem in my life that people remember and recite and share and *feel* something about I will consider that a wild success.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Holy termination “dust” Batman! (For reference, these mountains were completely bare yesterday.)
Matanuska Peak and adjacent mountains showing a full coat of new snow under a blue sky with a few clouds (spruce and cottonwood trees still green in the foreground).
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
or just, my god, hold anything at all
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What a ducking day at the fair! I mean, look at this lovely lady, straight out of Beatrix Potter's English countryside! (She obviously got lured away by a fox and has lost her bonnet and apron, poor thing.)
A regular old white duck with yellow/orange feet and bill, but with a big puffball of feathers on its head, standing in a cage in the bird exhibition room at the AK State Fair, looking longingly for an escape back to the countryside.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One thing nobody has considered is how this messes up the acronym I learned as a kid to remember the names of the Great Lakes: HOMES. HAMES? Or SHAME, I guess, which I suppose is appropriate…
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Looked up from this to see the fog start rolling in over the neighborhood rooftops. The weather is really doing the work this week framing these deaths 😕
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As good a day as any to buy this:
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Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology
A poetry anthology about about the incomparable, Dolly Parton. 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Read the news, told my 10yo, who said "who?" to which I belted out "Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeene," which he understood. Then I put on this slow version and listened to it on the porch with the fall rain and tried not to dissolve into a puddle. This is a hard loss.
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Dolly Parton - Jolene (33rpm slowed down digital version)
YouTube video by OdinsVlog
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well that’s fun. Wonder how long it would’ve take the oil companies to do anything if not for that anonymous pilot…
alaskasnewssource.com
Cook Inlet oil spill prompts multi-agency response
ADEC On-Scene Coordinator Anna Carey said multiple agencies have dispatched response teams to the area.
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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I know it's been said before, but if you're struggling with the *everything*, consider making something. It won't make the everything go away, but you'll feel good about what you made, and that one thing will be far more good than the evil fuckwits have ever produced in their lives.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The blueberries (and crowberries) were abundant today!
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today’s thrift store find. Loving the hubris of Mr. Bernstein and his three faces.
Vinyl album cover: Leonard Bernstein Conducts His Three Symphonies. Mr. Bernstein’s face is depicted thrice, at different angles and distances, in flames, classical Greek architecture, and in a NY skyline, all in the surf breaking on a sandy beach.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“AI is a turd mountain” pretty much sums it all up.
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Löki Gale Tobin @lgtobin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happy Right to Read Day to all those who celebrate (the freedom to read and against censorship)! uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...
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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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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Stop what you're doing and listen to/watch this right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Checking in from lovely Wasilla, AK.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Don't get my hopes up like that, TBQ.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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 😎
Info about the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Alaska Pacific University: Study fiction, literary non-fiction, or poetry; Get one-to-one mentorship throughout the program; Complete in 2 years, 3 months, with 3 summer sessions and 4 mentorship semesters. About the program: The low-residency MFA is a 36-credit program combining individualized study with an on-campus summer residency in Anchorage, Alaska, every July. Pre-residency online instruction begins May 2026. Apply today! Admission requirements: Application & $35 fee; Portfolio; Personal statement; Recommendations. Application deadline: April 1.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Presidents’ Day? Nah. Elizabeth Peratrovich Day? Yes please!
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Lake Levee 🌊 @lakelevee.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
February 14th in the South Pacific always extra festive 💘
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m not crying. You’re crying. 🥺
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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…
Lots of colorful bathroom stall graffiti messages, such as “Fuck Trump w/a HARD DICK” and “FUK ICE keep our Latina mamis.” Oh, and “Death to Amerikkka.”
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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!
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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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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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!
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waveforms: a short course in piano tuning
a short course in piano tuning
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy quakesgiving from AK 🌎🦃
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Love being woken up by the earth at 6:30 on a Saturday.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Also works for Monday reset.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Deep red Wasilla, Alaska. #nokings
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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.
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Ishalook 🐢🐻‍❄️❄️ @ishalook.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
There are So many ways to help people who have lost everything. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...
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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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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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...
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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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.
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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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.)
alaskasnewssource.com
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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Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Alaska folx, go get your vote on!
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