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They arrive each week. Words of light encouragement. Moments to reflect. On Sundays, thousands of residents of Portsmouth, N.H., find a poem nestled inside the city’s Covid-19 newsletter.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many people in a number of different ways. For family members of those who died from the virus, it likely meant not being able to spend time in person with their ...
Truax, the poet laureate for Portsmouth, N.H., pens a weekly pandemic poem that is included in the city's COVID-19 newsletter. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ...
At Super Bowl, Amanda Gorman delivers poem honoring COVID-19 heroes. The 22-year-old wrote an original poem titled "Chorus of the Captains." By Angeline Jane Bernabe. February 7, 2021, 7:01 PM.
This is the good kind of viral — a poem, making the rounds on social media, that can uplift anyone affected or infected by coronavirus: "When this is over, may we never again take for granted ...
A friend had posted something on Facebook about how much we need poetry in this anxious coronavirus age and she thought, “Yeah, you’re right.” Ungar had been thinking about ...
World-famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama offered up a brief moment of pause Wednesday through the power of a poem she wrote about the coronavirus pandemic. “Today, with the world facing COVID ...
'We health care workers are falling apart,' therapist writes in moving poem about COVID-19. Lizzy Pesch, an occupational therapist, described treating COVID-19 patients.
'Dear Coronavirus, please let me go and play': Girl, 6, pens emotional poem about lockdown after her mother encouraged her to write down her feelings ...
World-famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama offered up a brief moment of pause Wednesday through the power of a poem she wrote about the coronavirus pandemic. “Today, with the world facing COVID ...
World-famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama offered up a brief moment of pause Wednesday through the power of a poem she wrote about the coronavirus pandemic. “Today, with the world facing COVID ...