Comments on: Greetings from the Solstice in Seattle, Disappointed with Rising Covid Numbers and Re-openings, Feeling Discouraged with PoetryWorld

By: Jeannine Gailey

Jeannine Gailey — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:26:21 +0000

In reply to Lesley Wheeler. Thank you, Lesley!

By: Lesley Wheeler

Lesley Wheeler — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:24:28 +0000

I value your poems, Jeannine, so know there are readers out here believing your books will happen, and that we’ll want to read them! It may actually be a gift in disguise not to have a book being published in this disaster of a year–I’m rooting for an acceptance soon with a book in 2021. There should be a book series showcasing poetry about disability, by the way–is there?

By: Poetry Blog Digest 2020, Week 25 – Via Negativa

Poetry Blog Digest 2020, Week 25 – Via Negativa — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:27:34 +0000

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By: Jeannine Gailey

Jeannine Gailey — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:11:39 +0000

In reply to Jan Priddy. Thanks Jan. And thanks, Celia. Children get this fifty percent less than adults, but risk a strange killer syndrome. African Americans are actually a greater risk of death from Covid. Men have been dying at a higher rate from covid since the beginning. I don't think the media is doing a great job of educating people, either, but the lack of science literacy is shocking. I hope this isn't the end, but it does seem like a time of great change.

By: Celia

Celia — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 23:57:29 +0000

Here in Miami the beaches and malls are full of the unmasked. It’s terrifying. So much misinformation has made people just give up, rely on anecdotal experiences. So-and-so went to the beach and is fine, so I’ll be fine too. I’ve heard idiots say black people and children are immune. My neighbor says he can’t catch it bc he’s such a badass. To him it’s an issue of masculinity. Real men don’t get COVID. Meanwhile, the virus soars in the black community, kills children, and seems to kill more men than women. The universities are reopening in the fall bc they need to make $ from the dorms. I’m glad I read your book, bc I think this is the end of the world.

By: Jan Priddy

Jan Priddy — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:16:53 +0000

I feel your concern: “nobody with masks on, and I wondered if these people were stupid or suicidal or just oblivious.” Just too entitled to believe it could happen to them and too selfish to care about the impact their choice has on others. imo

Thinking positive thoughts in your direction. I look forward to reading your next work.

[We do desperately need poetry. I think people have noticed. Claudia Rankin poem “Weather” is on the cover of The New York Review of Books.]