Thursday, January 21st: Pandemic Poetry
Loneliness, love, and COVID reflections. Share Updated: 8:00 PM EST Jan 21, 2021
Thursday, January 21st: Pandemic Poetry
Loneliness, love, and COVID reflections. Share Updated: 8:00 PM EST Jan 21, 2021
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Show Transcript UNIQUE ANTHOLOGY CAPTURING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH POETRY. ROUGHLY 129 AMERICANS ARE TESTING POSITIVE EVERY SINGLE MINUTE. WE ARE RUNNING ON EMPTY. COAST-TO-COAST, MORE THAN 104,000 AMERICANS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19. I FEEL LIKE POETRY, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, DANCE, ALL OF THE ARTS CAN AND DO SPEAK TO ANY GIVEN MOMENT. IT TELLS YOU HOW PEOPLE ARE FEELING IN THAT MOMENT, AND IT GIVES YOU A REAL-LIFE GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THAT MOMENT. WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, I REALIZE THAT I NEEDED TO FIND SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY, AND THAT WAS PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO DO IT WHICH WAS POETRY. I THOUGHT, WELL, WHAT IF I OFFERED A SERIES OF E