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Former WORD Writer’s New York Times Piece

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Trial Puts Morocco’s New Charter Under Spotlight

CASABLANCA — In a packed courtroom, Mouad Belrhouat, 24, an anti-monarchist rapper who performs as El-Haqed, or The Spiteful, was convicted last Thursday of assault and sentenced to prison and a fine.

Article by Aida Alami

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Hannah Miet’s Occasional Howdy

Monday, January 10th, 2011

A former WORD writer who is enrolled in the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She was an award-winning student journalist at Hunter and is an award winning blogger. From time to time, she sends updates.

1. Next poetry reading: Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday January 16th, at 4 p.m. (Mark Calendars! Come! Bring friends!)

2. I had poems published in PANK Magazine and the Naugatuck River Review.

3. I posed as Ernest Hemingway for the 2011 Rumpus Literary Women Calendar, which you can order here.

4. An interview with me, plus some audio recordings of poems, will be up at Linebreak Magazine this coming Tuesday.

5. My non-fiction story, “Throw the Dirt, Brother” was published on Twitch. You can buy it for a buck on Amazon. (And it doesn’t matter if you don’t have an iPad, Kindle, or smartphone – there is a Kindle app for Macs and PCs that is free to download.)

Hannah Miet
Hello, Absurd World.

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New York Observer Appreciates Former WORD Senior Editor’s Reporting in Bushwick

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

The Observer picked up on story originally reported by Jonathan Mena for Bushwickbk.com in Brooklyn about this checkerboard building on Palmetto Street between Bushwick and Evergreen Avenues. Mena formerly wrote articles and columns and produce YouTube mini-docs and broadcast reports for the WORD. He has been stringing for Bushwickbk.com in Brooklyn for many moons.