Quarantine Haynaku By: Maiana Minahal Weeping, fearing doorknobs and shared elevators. 4/9/20 * My quarantine window Faintly smelling bleach, counting unmasked pedestrians. 4/25/20 * Maiana Minahal Poet, interdisciplinary artist, educator Author of Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Poetry, 2009) Assistant Professor, English and Writing Kapi’olani Community College Honolulu, Hawaii.
Author Archives: SF Creative Writing Institute
Dispatch #009
Dispatch #009 #dispatchesfromquarantine #teacher #pandemic Then there was quarantine
Dispatch #008
Dispatch 008 I have hidden my bones #bestlines #dispatchesfromquarantine #poetry #kimshuck
Dispatch #007
By Alexandra Kostoulas I have been feeling highly anxious the past few days and it ramps up at night.* So, here I am in the middle of the night, just free writing in here without a plan. These are probably thoughts I should save for my private journal. They don’t make me look very “writerly.”Continue reading “Dispatch #007”
Dispatch #006
By: Zarina Zabrisky Quarantena Purple and blue rubber gloves like leaves in the Golden Gate Park Where an empty Ferris Wheel skeleton looms over the empty Music Concourse. Knobby trees reach for the clueless skies. Like the Macbethian forest, it is all moving at us– Zoom funerals, Forbidden weddings, Mailing surgical masks made in ChinaContinue reading “Dispatch #006”
Dispatch #005*
*We started to get submissions! So I’m going to start publishing them. Here’s the first one. It’s a poem by Bay Area poet and impresario Paul Corman-Roberts. The formatting is off from what he sent me. He didn’t skip lines but I don’t know how to do that in wordpress w/ a cut and paste.Continue reading “Dispatch #005*”
dispatch #004
By: Alexandra Kostoulas | I noticed a few other people copied my dispatches since I published and promoted the last one. They are mostly bloggers and they labeled their posts “dispatches from quarantine 001. If it’s a coincidence, then what serendipity, but if it’s copying, then I’m annoyed. I know I had the idea firstContinue reading “dispatch #004”
Dispatch #003
By: Alexandra Kostoulas It’s hard to know how long this thing will last. We are all biding our time and staying inside. There are so many things I wanted to do during this Coronavirus time and I love watching tv and reading books so much but I haven’t felt like it. I’ve also wanted toContinue reading “Dispatch #003”
Dispatch #002
By: Alexandra Kostoulas We knew something was up when things were starting to get weird at the grocery store. This line keeps popping into my head or a variant of it. Like some day I am going to be an old grandma telling my grandchildren about this time and they will listen to my storytellingContinue reading “Dispatch #002”
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 I see sad and worried looks on people’s faces in the streets. And the people who are selling food or in the essential servicesContinue reading “Dispatch #001”
