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Jun 25, 2020 · In April, I began the process of putting together a poetry collection that reflected on life during the spread of the new coronavirus, believing in the healing power of words.
- Washington City Paper
And look! my last, or. next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture. I love) I shan’t have lied.
- Rafael Campo, Elisa New
- 2021
May 28, 2021 · Every Morning. I wake with wonder. and dive into the day. I grasp for my phone like a lifeline, a buoy, I rise among the displaced dreams of yore. Supplanted plans, disrupted from the year. So ...
May 10, 2021 · A global literary project is asking people all over the world to reflect on what getting vaccinated against COVID-19 means to them — and then to put those feelings in a poem.
Dec 16, 2022 · For example, the WRITE where we are now project hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK created an archive of poems that was made available to the general public, and Poetry and Covid-19 (Caleshu & Waterman, Citation 2021) brought together UK and international poets’ responses to the pandemic in a unique collaborative and dialogic format. Beyond single poems, many poets began to ...
Mar 29, 2021 · This article poses the research question of how readers of poetry react to the phenomenon of “corona poetry” by assessing their attitude toward poems on Covid-19, especially focusing on the specific arguments these readers put to the fore. These arguments are interpreted in light of the opposition between autonomous and heteronomous poetry ...
Mar 9, 2023 · It may be that there is a space for COVID poetry to play an important role in education in order to help people come to terms with their pandemic experiences and encourage empathy. Poetry is ...
