John Hodgen
John Hodgen’s first job was as a part-time gravedigger after school at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Templeton, Massachusetts. He’s since been a teacher, written six books, and now serves as Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Lonesomest Sound in the World
When the kids came to school, we tortured them because they smelled and wore the same clothes every day, until they just shut down, not even looking at us after a while, never raising their hands, never saying a word.
November 2025My Father’s Hammer
After he died, my mother gave me his toolbox, / saying he would have wanted me to have it, / the hammer kept inside as if in a little grave.
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