Kurt Cole Eidsvig digs into motivation, poetic strategies, and the mystery of where the arrows of our intentions land.
Tag: pandemic
Tishani Doshi – Hope is the Thing
Tishani Doshi's poem pays homage to a twelve-year-old girl who died of exhaustion last year during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Pandemic Snow
BY JONATHAN H. MARKS A few years ago, when I was on an international fellowship in Geneva, some friends asked me to go to the mountains for the afternoon.
Ellen Skilton – Like Every Good Thing
Ellen Skilton's poem offers poignant words that touch on a universal feeling experienced by humanity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - the sacredness of human interaction.
George Stein – Specter
George Stein's Micro Gallery show Specter is a journey through 2020 from the perspective of a New Yorker watching the transitions of his city from the street.
Margaret Bleichman – upon waking
'upon waking' describes a hand-washing ritual performed after waking up in the morning, accompanied by a traditional Jewish blessing, al netilat yadayim.
Susan Cummins Miller – Pandemic Aubade, Sonoran Desert
Susan Cummins Miller's poem grew out of her interaction with the Sonoran Desert, and the many months she spent in solitude and contemplation at The Desert House of Prayer in Arizona.