Tag Archives: Poetry

Creating an erasure poem means finding your voice lurking in another’s words. It can be a way to start writing when words fail. The past year has been difficult for many people. The pandemic, the politics, the job loss and the isolation — most Americans have had to find some …

At the end of March, Alice Quinn, the former executive director of the Poetry Society of America, emailed 125 poets across the United States, asking if any of them had written verses reflecting on life during a pandemic. Responses flooded in. Forty days later, Ms. Quinn had compiled a book …