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Saturday, May 15 • 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic

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When coronavirus started closing down New England in March 2020, life changed dramatically. People quickly rethought their approaches to work, school, shopping, socializing and more. In response, Lily Poetry Press created an anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus, edited by Eileen Cleary and Christine Jones, which features poems by Kevin Prufer, Annie Finch, Daniel Summerhill, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Anne-Marie Oomen, Sean Thomas Dougherty, and many others that explores our shared experiences of isolation, lock-down, re-entry. In this panel discussion, the editors and two poets from the collection will talk about the inspiration behind the project as well as their experiences writing through the pandemic. They will read a selection of poems that confront despair and reach for hope. And there will be sourdough! During the interactive session, the audience will be invited to share their own Covid-19 stories and poems.

Link to recording:  https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/vTcUKOKFQ_jzJ5-98YIDznuRwFePQQ-U4NzpjSUCKG5TG9A-C7EOvT7urpzMofaf.ncoruAHujf4fkuSu
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Steven Cramer

Steven Cramer’s poetry collections include Listen, Clangings, and Goodbye to the Orchard, a Sheila Motton Prize-winner, and a Massachusetts Honor Book. Published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, et al., and recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council and NEA fellowships... Read More →
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Eileen Cleary

Eileen Cleary is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, and 2 a.m. with Keats (forthcoming from Nixes Mate, 2021). She edits The Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review... Read More →
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Christine Jones

Christine Jones is from Cape Cod, MA, is the author of the full-length poetry book, Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and co-editor of the recently released anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020). She is... Read More →
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Kyle Potvin

Kyle Potvin’s newest poetry collection is Loosen (Hobblebush Books, January 2021). Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River... Read More →

Saturday May 15, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
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