Excited to receive notice that in less than 3 months, my words will appear in the Dear Vaccine anthology, from Kent State University Press.
Further, I’ve been invited to record a short video of
introducing and reading my poem, so that they can include the video on a new gallery page which will be create for the Global Vaccine Poem website. Some of these videos will be used for promotion of the book and online events and readings.
Here’s a peek between the book covers:
Its exciting to share this timely and meaningful collection with others around the world.
This April is National Poetry Month, and our moving new collection of poetry penned by people around the world shares their experiences and responses to the pandemic.
Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic is a full-color volume of over 150 poetry submissions which come from all 50 states and 118 different countries.
Internationally acclaimed author Naomi Shihab Nye, in her introduction, highlights the human dimensions found across the responses. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, provides a foreword that contextualizes the global scope of the problem, as well as the political and public health dimensions.
Making use of poetry’s powerful tools to connect us across division, Dear Vaccine reminds us that medical advances alone are not enough to solve the vexing challenges of the pandemic; the arts—and poetry—have a profound and critical role to play.
