Author: Poets of The World
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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POETRY in the TIME of CORONAVIRUS is an anthology of original submissions from the Poets of the World. Proceeds will benefit Doctors Without Borders and Partners In Health - two outstanding organizations supporting the fight against COVID-19 and countless other global health issues. Please follow @p_i_t_t_o_c on Instagram to meet many of the poets who generously committed themselves to this charitable effort with their profound creative voices. We dedicate this project to all of the healthcare professionals tasked with treating the victims of Coronavirus. As well, our community of poets extends its compassion and love to all who have been affected by this terrible pandemic. Thank you for supporting our small effort to make a positive difference during this tenuous time. Edited by G.A. Cuddy with valued assistance from Liz Kobak. Cover art by Charlotte Knauth. Contributors: Melanie Maxey, April Leavenworth, Alison Hurwitz, Erica Klarreich, Declan Boyle, Mark Gibbons, Noelle Butkevic, Allan Safarik, Robert Lee, Mark Creavan, Joey Kent, Austin Benson, Patty Lovell, John Paul, Jean Scott, Carmen Micsa, Elizabeth Rogan, Sheri Knauth, Charlotte Knauth, Linda M. Crate, Graeme Beale, Sukhy Parhar, James Schwartz, Sandra Fox Murphy, Taylor Bruce, Paul Cowan, Jerry Gonzalez, Shaun Gant, Luanne Castle, Robert Lonsdale, A.J. Chilson, Kimberly Stowe Green, Andrew Dawson, Matt Nagin, Lewis Trotter, Elizabeth Foster, Priyanka Sacheti, Julie Hale, Chloe Graves, Kayla Graves, Liz Kobak, Susan J. Farese, Devon Weis, Tanya Palacios, Buddila, Siddhant Pardesi, Toni Halseth, Sandra Frye, Teri Gruenwald, Conrad NN, Frankie Acosta, Kendra Stanton Lee, Tony Grand, Peggy Gerber, Judy Lewis, Benedikt Pavolvsky, Alan Weltzien, Margaret Seven Wellman, Shardae Rudel, Moeze Lalji, James Douglas, Keerthana Dhakshinamoorthy, Becky Simmons, Yvonne Glasgow, Josh Massey, Madison Zehmer, Tianna G. Hansen, Maureen Barron, Sharon Simon, Chirayu Writer, Sameer Agrawal, Aldo Quagliotti, Jen Chicheseter, Jamie Murray, (Ren, b.), Ava Motes, Melissa Felson, Dr. Pallavi Narayan, Anonymous Girl (Shreveport, LA), Ajao Abdulqowiyy, Molly Shem Lynch, Bolawa Sunday Ojo, Gerald Wickham, Valerie Fern, Stacy Potter, Melissa Gill, LQ McDonald III, Laura Ogden, Eleanora Hristova, Serene Bavis, Anjuna, Dr. Dan Milner, Kshitij Thakkar, Dwiki Nugroho Mukti, Sito Fossy Biosa, Candra Prasetiyo Wibowo, Alex R. Hein, Airea Johnson, Taya Franco, Debarshi Mitra, Jeanette C. Vigliotti, Shineth Anne, Pamela Sumners, Manshur Zikri, Jennifer Lemming, Madison Gordon, Stephen Watt, John Evan Patrick, John Morgan, Lisa Nelson, Nicolas Correa, Marie Johnson-Ladson, Ahren Lehnert, Matt Steele, Peter Clive, Emily Simon, Gerry Whyte, Katie Elizabeth, Champagne Writers (Candace A. Williams, DiAna Smith-Brown, and Peggy Gerber), Kate Garrett, Lynn Ungar, T.L. White, B. (@sexinthe6ixblog on Instagram), Christopher Kent, Marc Beaudin, Shelby Clark, Christopher Kent, Abigale Tabor, Simon Medhurst, Theresa Bastian, Jayda Louise, Andi Talbot, Joelle P., Patrick Hart, Jen Hughes, Ross Wilcock, Chloe Hanks, Neel Trivedi, S.A. Mobley, Sara C. Marron, Kari Rittoo, Gayle Smith, Budy Utamy, Harlan D. Whatley, Katherine Burkman, Alicia Young, Berto Tukan, H.C. Anhalt, Marc Buckhantz, and Isabel Morgan.
Author: Kitty O'Meara
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1734761806
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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“Kitty O’Meara…offers us wisdom that can help during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She is challenging us to grow."—Deepak Chopra, MD, author, Metahuman “Kitty O'Meara is the poet laureate of the pandemic"—O, The Oprah Magazine "An eloquent, heartwarming reflection that will resonate with generations to come… encouragement for a brighter tomorrow."—Kate Winslet "And the People Stayed Home is an uplifting perspective on the resilience of the human spirit and the healing potential we have to change our world for the better." ––Shelf Awareness “Images of nature healing show the author’s vision of hope for the future…The accessible prose and beautiful images make this a natural selection for young readers, but older ones may appreciate the work’s deeper meaning.”— Kirkus Reviews “This is a perfectly illustrated version of a poem that continues to be relevant.”—School Library Journal “A stunning and peaceful offering of introspection and hope.”—The Children’s Book Review Ten Best Children’s Books of 2020: "A calming, optimistic read, and a salve for children trying their best to navigate this time." —Smithsonian Magazine “It captured the kind of optimism people need right now.”—Esquire (UK) “Thank you, Kitty O'Meara…for pointing out that at this very moment, this very day, we can seize the opportunity to restore wholeness to our world."—Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an Octopus “A poem by American writer Kitty O’Meara has deservedly gone viral.”—Edinburgh Evening News And the People Stayed Home is a beautifully produced picture book featuring Kitty O’Meara’s popular, globally viral prose poem about the coronavirus pandemic, which has a hopeful and timeless message. Kitty O’Meara, author of And the People Stayed Home, has been called the “poet laureate of the pandemic.” This illustrated children’s book (ages 4-8) will also appeal to readers of all ages. O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic, quarantine, and the future suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the coronavirus and conveys an optimistic message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. Her words encourage us to look within, listen deeply, and connect with ourselves and the earth in order to heal. O’Meara, a former teacher and chaplain and a spiritual director, clearly captures important aspects of the pandemic experience. Her words, written in March 2020 and shared on Facebook, immediately resonated nationally and internationally and were widely circulated on social media, covered in mainstream news media, and inspired an outpouring of creativity from musicians, dancers, artists, filmmakers, and more. The many highlights include an original composition by John Corigliano that was premiered by Renée Fleming.
Author: Alice Quinn
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318722
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. “One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, stirring.” —The Millions **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z—Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder—with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang** As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. A portion of the advance for this book was generously donated by Alice Quinn and the poets to Chefs for America, an organization helping feed communities in need across the country during the pandemic.
Author: Tomos Roberts (Tomfoolery)
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063066386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Selected by Today as a book "to ease kids’ anxiety about coronavirus.” We all need hope. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to battle through adversity, but only if they have something to cling onto: a belief or hope that maybe, one day, things will be better. This idea sparked The Great Realization. Sharing the truths we may find hard to tell but also celebrating the things—from simple acts of kindness and finding joy in everyday activities, to the creativity within us all—that have brought us together during lockdown, it gives us hope in this time of global crisis. Written for his younger brother and sister in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem is as timely as it is timeless. Its message of hope and resilience, of rebirth and renewal, has captured the hearts of children and adults all over the globe—and the glimpse it offers of a fairer, kinder, more sustainable world continues to inspire thousands every day. With Tomos Roberts’s heartfelt poem and beautiful illustrations by award-winning artist Nomoco, The Great Realization is a profound work, at once striking and reassuring, reminding readers young and old that in the face of adversity there are still dreams to be dreamt and kindnesses to be shared and hope. There is still hope. We now call it The Great Realization and, yes, since then there have been many. But that’s the story of how it started . . . and why hindsight’s 2020.
Author: Cees Nooteboom
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ISBN: 9780857428837
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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An exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europe's greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times: the coronavirus pandemic. One of the leading living European writers, Cees Nooteboom never shies away from contemporary issues. His latest collection of poems, Leaving, begins in a garden with descriptions of Mediterranean plants, but what emerges are memories of the war--images of a distant past that have never disappeared. The poems take another turn when, unexpectedly, a mysterious virus takes control of the world and turns life upside down. A collection that can be read as a single poem, in which desolation and beauty, past and future, nostalgia and mortality all merge to represent the most mature work of a great poet. German artist Max Neumann's haunting images that accompany the poems work as complex visual metaphors that further underline the beauty and the gravity of the poems. Together, they make for a delicate and thoughtful read.
Author: Canute Lawrence
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039107222
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Pathology of a Pandemic is a collection of poems that was written during the onslaught of the novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Teenagers, young adults, and mature adults will find this book of poetry captivating because the voice in each poem is different from the others ranging from a deceased grandmother, a physically disabled person, to the never ending passion of those who stand against all types of oppression, discrimination and systemic racism. Common issues of identity, death, anti-Black racism, the power of love and its ability to heal the human spirit run throughout the anthology of poems. The collection is a creative chronicle and documentation of the individual and collective experiences we have faced during the 2020 pandemic. Pathology of a Pandemic is a mirror of ourselves that, hopefully, will allow us to see our strengths and weaknesses and help us create a better world for ourselves and others.
Author: Marilyn Hacker
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317783
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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An Indie Next Selection for December 2021 A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021 In March 2020, France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets and friends Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr—living mere miles from each other but separated by circumstance, and spurred by this extraordinary time—began a correspondence in verse. Renga, an ancient Japanese form of collaborative poetry, is comprised of alternating tanka beginning with the themes of tōki and tōza: this season, this session. Here, from the “plague spring,” through a year in which seasons are marked by the waxing and waning of the virus, Hacker and Naïr’s renga charts the “differents and sames” of a now-shared experience. Their poems witness a time of suspension in which some things, somehow, press on relentlessly, in which solidarity persists—even thrives—in the face of a strange new kind of isolation. Between “ten thousand, yes, minutes of Bones,” there’s cancer and chemotherapy and the aches of an aging body. There is grief for the loss of friends nearby and concern for loved ones in the United States, Lebanon, and India. And there is a deep sense of shared humanity, where we all are “mere atoms of water, / each captained by protons of hydrogen, hurtling earthward.” At turns poignant and playful, the seasons and sessions of A Different Distance display the compassionate, collective wisdom of two women witnessing a singular moment in history.
Author: Moorosi Mokuena
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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A Time to Reflect was conceived in Sierra Leone as a way to deal with realities of COVID-19 and many dimensions and narratives that were unfolding. The poems are written to reflect personal and perceived societal mood at that point in time.
Author: Anthony Caleshu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848617599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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In the summer of 2020, we invited 19 UK poets to partner with poets from around the world, to work collaboratively on poems responding to the virus. The poems are as personal as they are communal, and as local as they are international.
Author: Worker Writers School
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734317640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Worker Writers School supports writers from one of New York City's most ubiquitous yet least-heard populations: low-wage workers. Mark Nowak, a writer and founding director of the school, presents a selection of haiku written by "frontline workers" during the Covid 19 crisis. The poets included here had already been studying examples of the form and its connection to political resistance from seventeenth-century Japan to the Black Arts Movement of the twentieth century, as well as its capacity to amplify voices of everyday life. These "coronavirus haiku" convey moments of protest, solace, wonder, certainty, love, and strife. The writers in this anthology hail from the school's worker center partners in New York City including Domestic Workers United, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, Street Vendor Project, and Retail Action Project: Thomas Barzey, Kerl Brooks, Estabon Chimilio, Nimfa Despabiladeras, Lorraine Garnett, Davidson Garrett, Seth Goldman, Christine Lewis, Doreen McGill, Alando McIntyre, Kelebohile Nkheranye, Alfreda Small, and Paloma Zapata.
