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Welcome to my world of words—where my stories come to life and ideas spark imagination. Please enjoy my thoughtful musings, creative insights, and sternly worded letters to various misguided editors.
What Happens To A Dream Deffered?
Although Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died over fifty years ago, his poems speak to the outpouring of anger and grief we are seeing in cities all over America. In his poem “Harlem,” Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up . . . or…
Blatantly illegal’
Barbara Chiarello
October 17, 2025
I’m confused. During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said Mexico was sending us murderers, rapists and drug dealers. To keep them out, he promised to build a wall that Mexico would pay for. Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star on March 6, 2021, to “combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.” […]
Hello. I’m Dr. Barbara Chiarello.
I graduated from Brooklyn College and earned my Ph.D. in English literature at The University of Texas at Arlington. I have published in newspapers and magazines as a journalist, authored several academic articles as a UT Arlington graduate student and English professor, and published in Huston-Tillotson University’s literary journal, 900 Chicon; The University of Texas at Arlington’s Stimulus: A Medical Humanities Journal; in The Galitzianer: The Journal of Gesher Galicia and Toasted Cheese.
Over the past decade my letters to the editor have appeared in The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Austin Chronicle and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Austin American-Statesman.
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