Author Archives: poetryandcovid.com

By Lauralee Alben

Offering prayer amid the stone spirits,
I walk the pathway they attend
and open myself to their teachings.

By Hank Greenspan

I am a playwright, poet, and psychologist–emeritus prof from the University of Michigan. My plays have been produced at more than 300 venues worldwide. A lot of my work [including this piece] works between genres–theatre and poetry, oral history and performance, and so on. http://www.henrygreenspan.com

By Ivan Jenson

Listen
it’s not you
it’s this pandemic
so I kinda need
personal space
right now
I need to stay
at least six feet

By Stephen Claughton

Now the library’s shut,
an email comes every month
to tell me my books are renewed.

By Matthew Schultz

The intimacy
of this
air we breathe,
between us

By Cheryl Mann

My son is in medical school. COVID-19 is a constant and unwelcome guest in both of our worlds. My son has already survived COVID-19 once. This week he got married. I was able to attend, but it was not the wedding either of us had pictured in our minds. It was, however, a little slice of wonderful in a world turned upside down.

By Kai Murga

Every time I see someone I think about playing
Hide and seek

By Dr Roger Craik

My trim black tablet on the table.
Your wider, blue-rimmed tablet on the table.

You and me together.
COVID’s the third wheel.

By Smeetha Bhoumik

A magic burst of cirrus slowly floats along as I decide to step
outside frozen notions that enclosed me in shells, and outside
is a whole new world of beginnings, of ends, of new shells, the
crusts of which wait to be broken open; much like this old frame,
flying around in mystic, circular symbols of
love, whispering wordless fiery old odes that dissolve fear.

By Bhavna Khemlani

Everlasting lifestyle
Don’t know what to do in 2020
Do this!