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The Pandemic Issue

The Pandemic Issue - (photo credit: Mary Elizabeth Bardsley)
(photo credit: Mary Elizabeth Bardsley)

Theresa Keeley – Certainty (poem)

Heather Knowles – Non-Essential (poem)

Shelly Reed Thieman – Every Distant Siren (poem)

Allison Bartholmey – The Stuff of Dreams (poem)

Steve Rose – Equinox (poem)

Marilyn Baszczynski – When Writing a Poem Isn’t Enough (poem)

Tufik Shayeb – The Worst Part (poem)

Seth Speaks – Untitled (poem)

Maggie Ripperger – Sit, Stay, Solitude (poem)

Dawn Terpstra – Sheltering (poem)

Eric Baysinger- Mother Earth Has Grounded Us (fiction)

Maureen Moroney – A Grocery List for the Apocalypse (poem)

Phil Kemp – Masks (poem)

James D’Agostino – Insomniac Dream Journal (poem)

Shelby Wilson – Shelter In/Out (poem)

Alicia Pica – Saturnine (art)

Alexander Limarev – Yin & Yang / COVID19 (art)

Kelsey Bigelow – Sunday Evening Spectacle (poem)

Adrian Slonaker – The Wind (poem)

Janine P. Dubik – now (poem)

Crystal Stone – Self Portrait with Quarantine Instructions (poem)

Caroliena Cabada – Untitled (poem)

Maggie Rue Hess – Canto in the Time of Coronavirus (poem)

Lukpata Lombo Joseph – Troubling Things (poem)

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