List of Illustrations
Foreword | Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Fear: It lives in droplets
Monster under Me
Fiction | Nathan Blalock
Table of Contents for a Manual of Pandemic Response Protocols
Poetry | Rasha Abdulhadi
The Worst of Times
Essay | Frances Ogamba
Essentials
Poetry | Maria James-Thiaw
Recipe for Troubled Times
Poetry | Linda Parsons
Night Guard
Poetry | Linda Parsons
Pandemic Pandemonium
Poetry | Kenneth Moore
Even the Robins Know
Poetry | Robert Okaji
Distance: As we moan into the phone
How Corona Evolves or Makes Us Evolve, or We Have to Evolve Together
Poetry | Xiaoly Li
Sequestered Alone
Poetry | Joan Hofmann
To whom it may concern,
Letter and Poetry | Alyce Copeland
Love in the Time of Corona
Poetry | John Cuetara
What We Know about the Fatalities
Fiction | Lisa Michelle Moore
Do Lockdowns Ever End?
Poetry | Diego Islas
Wish You Were Here
Poetry | Joan Goodreau
Comfort
Poetry | Celeste Blair
Didn't We Once Call It Love?
Poetry | E. Ethelbert Miller
The Cheat
Poetry | Rayna Momen
How I've Survived This Long, Part 3
Poetry | Kasha Martin Gauthier
What it's like to get married in prison during a pandemic
Essay | Christopher Blackwell
Mask: A parachute that catches my breath
Invisi dis ability in COVID Times
Essay | Catherine Young
Corona Spring
Poetry | Deborah DeNicola
Unmasked
Poetry | Faiza Anum
The Fabric of Society
Fiction | Alice Benson
Masked
Poetry | Christine Rhein
Melt Down
Poetry | Mary K O'Melveny
May 6, 2020
Poetry | Kevin McLellan
Barriers
Essay | Robbie Gamble
from The Quarantinas
Poetry | Stephanie Lenox
Labor: Warnings on the floor
Bezos Knows
Poetry | Ranney Campbell
We Are Family: A Lesson Learned as an On-line English Teacher during COVID-19
Essay | Maya Lear Brewer
Line Speed
Poetry | Ben Gunsberg
Staying Socially and Politically Active while Socially Distancing: Making the Issues around COVID-19 Part of One's Activism
Essay | C. Liegh McInnis
Essential Medical Workers Are to Report to Duty
Poetry | Michele Bombardier
These Hands
Fiction | Z. S. Roe
Postcard from Pandemic
Poetry | Robert Okaji
A Classroom Hums in Wait.
Poetry | Vanessa Chica Ferreira
Sickness: My stomach charlie-horsed
My COVID Story
Essay | Brett L. Massey
Essentially Unseen
Poetry | Lavinia Kumar
Nudge
Poetry | Phrieda Bogere
Elegy
Poetry | Bianca Alyssa Pérez
I Cut Up My Hillary T-shirt to Make a COVID Mask
Poetry | Joan E. Bauer
A Story of Constantine, COVID-19, and Pandora
Fiction | Waliyah Oladipo
New Age
Poetry | Robert J. Levy
Alcohol Woman
Poetry | Deidra Suwanee Dees
Grief: Interjected like a comma
Elegy, Interrupted
Poetry | Emily Ransdell
My Mother Whispers, Doesn't He Look So Peaceful
Poetry | Bianca Alyssa Pérez
A Sonnet for the Living
Poetry | Bianca Alyssa Pérez
#covidclarity
Essay | Marcelle Mentor
Trapped
Poetry | Deidra Suwanee Dees
Love, Coronavirus
Poetry | Lisa Suhair Majaj
A Poet Attempts to Homeschool, Week 6: Fractions
Poetry | Kasha Martin Gauthier
Evaporating Villanelle during a Time of Pandemic
Poetry | Jen Karetnick
A Day in the Life
Essay | Eric Ebers
What You Want to Say
Poetry | Maria Rouphail
Zoom Funeral
Poetry | Laura Glenn
For Jon, Who Died Because of Time
Poetry | Rayna Momen
Survival: Remember every surface you touch
Essential Nonessentials in Lockdown
Poetry | Katy Giebenhain
The Eaters
Fiction | Danielle Lauren
Off-Script
Poetry | Monserrat Escobar Arteaga
Heroes
Fiction | Mark Brazaitis
15 Mar 2020-A (a roll in the hand is worth two on the shelf) Haiku
Poetry | Peter Joel
We Will Sing of Gone Bodies Some Days from Now
Poetry | Blessing Omeiza Ojo
In Times of Quarantine
Poetry | Rosalie Hendon
Halmoni's Kimchi Pancakes
Recipe | Elia Min
COVID Curriculum
Essay | Dominique Traverse Locke
Monkeys
Poetry | Fabiyas M V
Justice and Reckoning: Colonial co-morbidities
How to Make White Supremacy Generative/How to Survive a Pandemic
Essay | Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Blackout
Poetry | Thomas Beckwith
The Marrow-Sucking Grip of Immigration Injustice
Poetry | Kim Denning
White
Poetry | Roan Davis
we've been here before
Poetry | Liseli A. Fitzpatrick
Crosstown
Poetry | Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
My Uncertain Story
Essay | Noe Hernandez
Em Ontvlecetv / Invaded
Poetry | Deidra Suwanee Dees
POV
Poetry | Jameka Hartley
The Home of the Brave
Poetry | David Antonio Reyes
Things I Never Told You
Poetry | Steve Ramirez
Environment and Place: Let the river turn the stone
Lines before Lockdown
Poetry | Lisa Suhair Majaj
hymn
Poetry | Caroline Furr
May Shivers
Poetry | Lukpata Lomba Joseph
For the emptiers have emptied them out
Poetry | Alan Smith Soto
While the World Fell Apart around Us
Poetry | Aimee Nicole
COVID Spring Comes to Southeast Pennsylvania
Poetry | Kenneth Pobo
2020
Poetry | Yuan Changming
Folded Up
Poetry | donnarkevic
Social Distance
Poetry | Fred Shaw
Austin
Poetry | Jeffrey Taylor
Hope: Beyond sorrow there's a gardenia tree
During quarantine, I embrace myself as a long-hauler,
Poetry | Jen Karetnick
Magdalena
Poetry | Deborah "Deby" Rodriguez
Too Loud to Sleep
Essay | Natalie Mislang Mann
When the Games Return
Poetry | E. Ethelbert Miller
Wasted
Essay | Celeste Blair
This Is Not the End of the World
Poetry | Darius Atefat-Peckham
Touch Screen
Fiction | Mohini Malhotra
Notes
Contributors
About the Editors
