Han VanderHart

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Hi, all. I’m creating this document in order to better serve the greater writing community. I’m really grateful when folks invite me to read or be on a panel, but having to iterate these items again and again leads me to believe that we need to be more organized and transparent about both accessibility and…

braids floating down the road in late summer full moon in Aquarius my mother is tired of picking blueberries meal moths fly out of the pantry I step out of the pool and my weight returns

I’m so proud that THE KINK ISSUE of Moist Poetry Journal is live. Read the gorgeous poems by the issue’s 18 contributors here: https://thekinkissue.wordpress.com/

in the quiet between November and December, a white-throated sparrow sings five long notes ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ for weeks I insist I hear an off-key bird, stand barefoot on the porch of my not-knowing ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Po-or Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody sings the sparrow, passerine toes holding the pine ~…

Blurb, definitions: noun, a short publicity notice (as on a book jacket) verb, to describe or praise in a blurb — Scenario: you are asked to blurb a fellow author’s book. Wonderful! This request says they trust and admire you as a reader and writer yourself. How do you decide whether to write a blurb?…

the small slip of the infant’s bottom in the blue bath water how perfection is an unsung psalm the form of eggs six am half-light and grasses on the hill twelve goats running uphill extra slices of bread after dinner and soft butter in the dish the infant asleep in five minutes asleep again in…

This is my first time at a writing residency. It was not free, although it used to be–an article in Our State magazine featuring the Weymouth Center’s Writers-in-Residence program hangs on the wall outside the kitchen downstairs, and describes the residency as a two-weeks stay for (invited!) writers, who then would also give a reading…