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Introduction
The Process
Shaun Ingalls
Moving Day
Incorporating Mooses by Ted Hughes
Gathering Worms
Come Worship With Us
Abigail M. Woods
On Alice Paul at the Seaward-Belmont House
Walmart
For Unelavnhi, the Great Spirit
Three-For-One
Egyptian Rat Screw (Or, ERS)
Where I'm From
Almost Asleep
Kimberly Johnson
Details of Sapelo River
Paint Chips
Barnyard Concert at Dusk
Six Feet Away
Andy Schoenborn
Earth Day Presence
I See You
The Other Side of Now
Susan Ahlbrand
Strangerfriends
One Morning
Living Is Better Than Dying
A teacher mom might say (during COVID 19 shutdown)
Ugly Feet
Gayle Sands
Dear Fifteen
Still Some Work to Do
Hugs
Origins
Crier
Stefani Boutelier
Addicted Recovered
Mirror Mirror
Rhythmic Run
A Crowning in May
Jennifer Guyor-Jowett
Requiem Mass
Between two selves
{poem-ing}
"compassion it"
Maureen Ingram
Magic Happens
Are You Sleeping?
There’s a Hand
Dad
Denise Krebs
It’s A Good Friday Just to Say
Haiku
Four Things I’d Say to People Who Are Afraid of Their Spice Cabinet
Writing with #Verselove
An Ode to #Verselove Poets
They Haven’t Yet
Stacey Joy
The Golden Shovel Poem
Free Writing
Where I’m From
BLACK HAIR LEGACY
Melissa Ali
Daughter of
Desensitized
Dance Party Fun
Tammi Belko
Listen for your Beat
To My Dearest Daughter,
How to Come Undone During Covid 19
Now what?
Kate Currie
Mom, I cant spell it
“The Most Good”
It Embraces Me
Monica Schwafaty
Ritual
ANXIETY
Why should you participate in the #verse love celebration?
Me
Infection
The Chair Calls Your Name
Sarah Donovan
Community Organizers
Sands of Time
Where I’m from poem
Sun Through Window
Betsy Jones
The Golden Shovel
Borrowed Lines
I am from
I Am COVID
Susie Morice
To Forget Never
Cocktail Hour
2020 Duplex
Linda Mitchell
Goals for Constitution Day
Thank You Note
Kindred
Sun and Fun
Anna J. Small Roseboro
Is It Time to Go?
We Need You!
Stymied by a Stylus
The Redwoods
Songs Soothe and Help Us Cruise
Love It or Lighten It
Lead On!
A streetside elegy in C
Laura Langley
I draw my ink from
The Weather in 2020
outcome
"Journey"
Looking for Signs in Spring
Barbara Edler
Meltdown in Aisle Three
So Much Depends on Covid-19
Rituals
From My Open Hand
Allison Berryhill
Running from Both Sides
Ovillejo from the Earth
Sonnet to VerseLove
Tense OverDue
Mo Daley
Details of a Driveway Visit
Night Terrors
My Tiny Star
Fortunes for my sister
Emily Yamasaki
Abandoned
The News
Thin
Chronic but Well
Katrina Morrison
Mirror Poem
Golden Shovel Poem
Ekphrastic Poem
Acrostic Analogy
Ovillejo
Distance Learning?
Seana Wright
Writing Procedure
Parent conversation- Code Switching
Brain Power
My Rectangular Honey
Shelter-In-Place
Donetta Norris
Incorporating “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Dear Online Learning,
Wake up – trod downstairs to make the drink that will give me energy
April 29, 2020
Margaret Simon
A View From Forever Saturday
Eight Reasons to Take a Walk on Sunday Morning
The Duplex of Virtual Teaching
Magic Bean
Taking Back a Wish
Angelica Braaten
Letter from Future Self
Reciprocity
Detail of Swamp Forest
song lyrics
Jamie Langley
Credo
weather
at the table
salt water taffy
Turn From Poem*
Denise Hill
Our Camelot
Indelible Moments
Elms on Death Row
Grounded
Ashley Valencia-Pate
Feet to Night
Keep This Fire Burning Steady
Give Me A Beat
Thoughts While Waiting for the Board of Education’s Decision of What Will Happen in the Fall
Scott McCloskey
Prose Poem with a Horse
(re)Looking
Washing Hands
A Spring Credo
Alex Berkley
Then
Pushing a Stroller
Day One
Blue Eyes
Hello Pandemic
Jennifer Sykes
Ending among Comfort
World Awakens
After Viewing “Young boys harassing the first African American family to move into the all-white neighborhood”
Glenda Funk
Simultaneous Concurrent Action
Poetry Shifts
Skin
Introvert
Coffee
Dear Lauryl
Time Limerick
Teacher-Poets
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Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Poems Copyright © 2021 by Dr. Sarah J. Donovan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.