Jude Patrong’s King Covid
Jude Patrong -
Over the pandemic year, creativity bloomed, many people found novel ways to express many ideas about the pandemic itself. One such person is local poet Jude Patrong.
The Valencia poet’s latest work is called King Covid the Man in the Moon. In a phone interview he explained that many of the stories and narratives told about the pandemic were woven together to form his latest poem. These were also coupled with Carnival imagery.
“Two months ago I decided to write a poem on the covid19 pandemic,” he said.
He called the poem Man on the Moon because Latin word corona means wealth and crown and which, to him, “is like a circle around the moon.”