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Dana Salvador
Dana Salvador grew up on a farm in northeastern Colorado and has worked in urban public schools for twenty-five years. She writes about these varied experiences in her essays and poetry. (danasalvador.wordpress.com)
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
After All This
When twenty first graders were slaughtered and the country responded without a national gun-buyback program, national red-flag laws, universal background checks, a national wait period, a gun registry, an assault-weapons ban, disarming all domestic abusers, ending legal immunity for gun manufacturers, instituting mandatory yearly classes for gun ownership (list all your ideas that could help here), we became complicit.
February 2025
Poetry
Chasing Hawks
After the radiation ruined her lungs, / and they’d drained fluid once a month, / then every other week, then every day, / my grandma said she wanted to go / home.
May 2023
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