Dispatch #058
Silver Lining by Norma Smith My animal sleeps, eyes open, on her gray sheepskin pad beside my desk. She’s curled up, snoring gently. Both of her two-leggeds have stayed home with her […]
Dispatch #057
Night and Day. Covid, October 21 by Penelope Blair Late in the evening I read an email from my poetry friend It sounds reluctant, and casual despite the potential for panic She’s […]
Dispatch #056
Lower-Class Artist Imagines by Tongo Eisen-Martin Grip my heart tighter, Lord Help me write on this sleeve… like listening to Nina Simone later in life The poet takes over for his former […]
Dispatch #055
2 Poems by Andres Cordoba the heart keeping me alive When spiders build webs it is from the center out. They are fishermen in their wordless devotion, traversing gaps far too large […]
Update on Dispatches from Quarantine
December 7, 2021 Dear Writers & Readers: After a series of setbacks which caused an almost year-long hiatus in our publishing cycle, we pleased to announced that Dispatches are back! We have […]
Dispatch #054
Zarina Zabrisky 9/11: I have mentioned before that I was booked to fly United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, from Newark to San Francisco, with my family. It crashed in […]
Dispatch #053
The World at Golden Way Our House in Quarantine By: Hilary King Kitchen One morning I wake up and the kitchen is empty. The cabinets beneath the stove, empty. The shelves above […]
Dispatch #052
4 Covid-19 Poems By: Marianne Peele Chicago, IL * Sent in on 8-30-2020. (some poems written in Florida) We Have Grown Soft During This Pandemic August 30, 2020 Belly soft. Hands soft […]
Dispatch #51
Overmorrow Andrew J. Thomas Yesterday was the same as today; is the same as tomorrow. Each day passing, one foot in front of the other, a long aimless walk into wilderness. Our […]
Dispatch #050
Pandemic Gratitudes Melissa Eleftherion Good air quality today A house and a job Simplified hysteria Kitten antics No fights today Enough money to pay the bills Warm bed Glad I’m not a […]
Dispatch #049
A Day in the Life of a Mom Carla petree Skill Drills 8:15 am – healthier lifestyle YouTube videos with D 9:00 – educational skill drills with C 10:00 – Thursdays, read […]
Dispatch #048
The Language of Books By: Adriana Macias Carmen woke up in a bad mood today and spent the rest of the day finding some fault in everything and everyone. The Shelter In […]
Dispatch #047
Quarantine By: T.S. Rowell July 5 2020 When it began, for an uncertain duration this was to be a month of stillness two months of these same walls or maybe just one […]
Dispatch #045
3 Poems By: Ndaba Sibanda Corona Poems A Poor Person’s Precarious Paces And Spaces Her efforts to hold back, to hold herself back Against hurtling and hurting herself helplessly With a hungry, […]
Dispatch #044
3 Poems Kitty Costello Ode to Soap A repetitive acrostic Savior of all people Soothe our aching psyches Scrub our appendages pristinely Sluff off atrocious pathogens Secure our antiseptic perimeter Shelter our […]
Dispatch #043
Two Poems By Cassandra Dallet Body Count Fourth of July July 2-4, 2020 The days are marked with death tolls infection rates blazing red states and a barrage of bomb-like fireworks San […]
Dispatch #042
By Peggy Morrison In this country, we live in an ironclad cultural box cast iron thick and immobile individualistic/tragically separate/competitive We can’t find our way to simple collective action for the common […]
Dispatch #041
2 Poems by Keith Mark Gaboury Italy Macguill, Dan. “Did Video Show Italian Army Trucks Transporting Coffins Amid COVID-19 Pandemic?: A Stark Illustration of the Tragic Impact Coronavirus Had on Parts of Italy in […]
Dispatch #040
2 Poems By: Fizza Abbas Lockdown Chef All that greens is not mint As the lockdown began, two wooden doors welcomed me into a territory that was quite unknown: the hub of […]
Dispatch #038
Crazy by Miles Cates, age 8 Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s, If The World Was Crazy sent on June 4, 2020 If the world was crazy, you know what I’d eat? An entire […]
Dispatch #037
2 Poems By Hollie Hardy A Murmuration of Starlings In the cities, protestors break quarantine and windows expressing moral outrage, like a choreographed ballet at 45, your mother asks you to move […]
Dispatch #036
By Haldane King Originally Published as a Facebook Post It’s great that everyone is upset about Christian Cooper, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, it really is. I’m delighted in the smidgens of […]
Dispatch #035
Those of Us, The Other Diaspora Collective Yiorgos Anagnostou There are those of us who immigrated to this country with next to nothing and now find ourselves accomplished—the American Dream is imprinted […]
Dispatch #001
–Alexandra Kostoulas | This whole thing is hard. Some days are easier than others. Today was one of those days that was easier emotionally. But the few times I do go outside […]
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