Six Feet Apart: Poetry from the Pandemic

Six Feet Apart: Poetry from the Pandemic PDF Author: Aj Dome
Publisher: Kellogg Press
ISBN: 9780578901091
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Book Description
In March of 2020, the poet began posting his pandemic (pan-Dome-ic) poetry on social media. He posted one poem per day along with backgrounds from his environment. This collection spans days 1 - 250. In producing this book, we have attempted to duplicate the form and look of the original posts. Read one per day, or binge them all in one sitting; either way, we hope you enjoy this collection.

Six Feet Apart: Poetry from the Pandemic

Six Feet Apart: Poetry from the Pandemic PDF Author: Aj Dome
Publisher: Kellogg Press
ISBN: 9780578901091
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Book Description
In March of 2020, the poet began posting his pandemic (pan-Dome-ic) poetry on social media. He posted one poem per day along with backgrounds from his environment. This collection spans days 1 - 250. In producing this book, we have attempted to duplicate the form and look of the original posts. Read one per day, or binge them all in one sitting; either way, we hope you enjoy this collection.

Six Feet Apart, Together!

Six Feet Apart, Together! PDF Author: Ari Levitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Inspired by the necessity for social distancing during the global coronavirus pandemic of 2019-2020, Ari's thoughtful, clever, and witty verses lend a message of hope, humor, and guidance to what is otherwise a very surreal and uncertain period in our history. Wonderfully written, this book (ranked A+ for quality quarantine material) is nigh guaranteed to put a smile on your face! ..... particularly if you're reading it from the relative security of your safe room or high tower. You can hear the author reading it aloud on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/8kDsZtB5FRo. Proceeds from its sales will be used to support local communities who are suffering from the COVID-19 outbreak and in need of financial assistance.

Six Feet Apart: Love in Quarantine

Six Feet Apart: Love in Quarantine PDF Author: Elena Greyrock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735495019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Together in a Sudden Strangeness

Together in a Sudden Strangeness PDF 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.

People Poems & Other Poetry

People Poems & Other Poetry PDF Author: George L. T. Wilks
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198225775X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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The infatuation that is born within me is to express myself using the medium of poetry. To stir your heart and mind with a graceful sound. Not relating a sense of being very profound. Rather, to convey a message with meaning, rhythm, and rhyme. Writing about life's experiences that involves people of all different kinds. It's about my awareness of the creation around. And showing my appreciation for such things in my written expression by means of poetry.

The Art of Touch

The Art of Touch PDF Author: Joan Schweighardt
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820365351
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch. Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without it-as so many did and still do because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They explore how transmissions such as texting may impede opportunities for touch, while those like Zoom may make it possible for people who otherwise might be left behind to stay "in touch." From the experience of touching beloved animals to the life-changing ways in which books and performances can touch us, virtually all aspects of touch are acknowledged in these pages.

Six Feet Apart

Six Feet Apart PDF Author: Chantel Carlson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955389914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Six Feet Apart is a series of monologues focusing on the impacts of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. The individual interviews were conducting via Zoom with five friends during February 2021-June 2021 focusing on the topics of: the beginning of the pandemic, life in quarantine, the impact on jobs, COVID hitting home, coping, COVID summer, and coming together. This project reflects an intersection of those stories at a time we thought we had seen it through to the end.

The Language of Contemporary Poetry

The Language of Contemporary Poetry PDF Author: Lesley Jeffries
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031097491
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Book Description
This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they do. While this volume focuses on contemporary poets writing in English and mostly based in the UK and Ireland, the framework will work just as well for other eras’ poetry, as well as for other cultures and languages.

Living with Coronavirus

Living with Coronavirus PDF Author: S T Kimbrough Jr.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725284359
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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This volume of poems addresses the human effects of the coronavirus pandemic including: prolonged illnesses, death, disruption of society, families, the work force, and economy. There are the accompanying emotional effects of grief, distressed orphaned children, over-stressed hospital staffs, anxieties over the shortage of health workers, medication, and other medical needs. There are also increased incidents of suicide and numerous other emotional entanglements and physical conditions for which a country, city, village, and family are often not prepared. At times such as these, language becomes extremely important in how we communicate with one another. How we face the realism and facts of the moment is vital for the health of a person and a nation. One notes especially the importance of the language of political leaders at a time of national and global suffering. The poems also address issues the pandemic has brought into the open, such as racism, the vulnerability of the poor, and the importance of governmental leadership in a national and worldwide crisis. People of faith emphasize the importance of a faith response to our common humanity amid suffering. Among many other questions, they ask: How shall we live with the enduring problem of pandemics that require changing of attitudes and an ongoing concern for others?

A 21st Century Plague

A 21st Century Plague PDF Author: Elayne Clift
Publisher: University Professors Press
ISBN: 1939686776
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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It is more than a year since Covid-19 invaded our countries and our bodies, causing us to long for the touch of loved ones, to fight anxiety and despair, and to adjust to the stunning effects of prolonged isolation. We watched as the numbers of deaths mounted and agreed that it was the worst health crisis we’d experienced in a hundred years. We saw pictures of those we’d lost, and resisted having them treated as mere statistics. What we longed for were stories about people lost to the insidious virus, and those left behind. We wanted stories of survival, coping, finding our way to the future. We wanted stories that made us laugh, weep, empathize, share sadness, become better people ourselves. That’s because storytelling, whether sung, danced, painted, acted, or written in prose and poetry is primal. It’s how we come to understand the world around us. Stories give us wholeness and allow us to recover something vital and true in our lives. Stories, as writer Sue Monk Kidd knows, are “the life of the soul.” Telling and hearing stories of how we got through this dreadful pandemic is how we say what happened, with empathy, so that future generations will know what it was like to live in isolation for over a year, to feel afraid while trying to be brave, to cope, and even to grow because of the shared experience. The stories we tell, and the carefully crafted words we use to tell them are an act of remembrance in which our words build monuments to a time when our lives called upon us to carry on and to endure, to know what really matters, to know what to cling to and what to let go. In making much of the mundane, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems, by diverse and award-winning writers, capture and share the collective Covid experience in which we became “gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,” as writer May Sarton put it. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey, and that we dared “to deal with our bag of fears,” as Eudora Welty said we must. The poetic expressions of such courage are healing. They soothe us and help us recover from, and recall, a transformative experience. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us.