Together in a sudden strangeness: America's poets respond to the pandemic

How will this pandemic affect poetry? / Julia Alvarez

Crown prayer / Sarah Arvio

Come back, come back / Jesse Ball

from During the pandemic / Rick Barot

Still life / Ellen Bass

Aprés moi / Erin Belieu

Dad poem / Joshua Bennett

Haunt / April Bernard

Ode / Jill Bialosky

Men waiting for a train / David Biespiel

Facetime / George Bilgere

Longer prayer / Sophie Cabot Black

Plague diary / Traci Brimhall

Say think you say I'm sorry / Jericho Brown

Marvel / Stephanie Burt

New nice / Danielle Chapman

May day / Nicholas Christopher

After the Apocalypse / Ama Codjoe

Poem I wrote after I asked you if cereal can expire / Catherine Cohen

I see on Zoom he's growing taller by the day / Elizabeth J. Coleman

Sequestration / Billy Collins

At CVS wearing a mask I buy plastic Easter eggs for my daughters / Nicole Cooley

Sheltering in place / Peter Cooley

Weather heard as music / Timothy Donnelly

***** Corona diary / Cornelius Eady

Cards / John Freeman

Aubade / Forrest Gander

For the rookie neurologist in the plague / Suzanne Gardinier

Leaving Evanston / Deborah Garrison

Easter Sunday poem / Tammy Melody Gomez

Desert lily / Rigoberto González

COVID-19 lockdown, Easter weekend / George Green

If the cure for AIDS, / Linda Gregerson

Flowers for Tanisha / Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Six months from Patient Zero / Eliza Griswold

If indeed I am ill, brother, / Julia Guez

Voyages / Nathalie Handal

Equinox at home, 2020 / Brooks Haxton

Future of everything / Aleksandar Hemon

:::[a ragged white moth passes by]::: / Brenda Hillman

Eight people / Edward Hirsch

Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield

April / Richie Hofmann

Watching the full moon in a time of pandemic / Garrett Hongo

Ballina / Fanny Howe

Ides of March, 2020 / Didi Jackson

Invocation / Major Jackson

4/12/2020 / Fady Joudah

Mulberries / Stephen Kampa

I've been following a magnolia / Vincent Katz

My heart cannot accept it all

Susan Kinsolving

Elder Care / Ron Koertge.

Sheltering at home / John Koethe

from Requiem / Yusef Komunyakaa

Burning one / Li-Young Lee

Prism cell / Brad Leithauser

As if / Dana Levin

End of poetry / Ada Limón

Quarantine / Dave Lucas

American nurse forsees her death / Amit Majmudar

Batshit / Sally Wen Mao

Matzoh / Gail Mazur

I hear the wild birds singing tangled roads / Shane McCrae

Conditional / Maureen N. McLane

Corona / Dante Micheaux

Isolation, week two, sixth day of spring / Susan Minot ****

Dance/ Susan Mitchell

Storm / Kamilah Aisha Moon

Cheese, almonds, eggs / Jim Moore

Vallejo / Thomás Q. Morín

Because we want to imagine / Laura Mullen

Koan / Carol Muske-Dukes

April sixteen twenty twenty / Eileen Myles

Order to disperse / D. Nurkse

Two days in March / John Okrent

Poem for my students / Sharon Olds

And the people stayed home / Kitty O'Meara

Aftermaths / Tommy Orange

Tea for you, too / Ron Padgett

At the hardware store on the island (March 21, 2020) / Sarah Paley

Moonwalk in Vermont / Jay Parini

Sing a darkness / Carl Phillips

Fantasia in a time of plague / Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Plague poem / Katha Pollitt

Meditation on transmission / Dean Rader

Weather / Claudia Rankine

April, Walkley Road / Clare Rossini

St. Sebastian interceding for the plague-stricken / Mary Jo Salter

Gone / Grace Schulman

April 5, 2020 / Vijay Seshadri

Pandemicon / Diane Seuss

Spillover / Brenda Shaughnessy

inoculation against innocence / Evie Shockley

Unwinding the wound / Elizabeth Spires

Three octets / Susan Stewart

Under juncos, the baby stones/ Tess Taylor

Existential / Anne Waldman

Apartment / Noah Warren

Naturally / Rosanna Warren

Canal nocturne / Rex Wilder

Onlookers and Reading Pascal in Quarantine / Christian Wiman

Private life / Mark Wunderlich

Concealed host / Jenny Xie

Stones and stars / Jeffrey Yang

Shine and Resurrection / Kevin Young

Poem for Rupi Kaur / Matthew Zapruder.

How will this pandemic affect poetry? / Julia Alvarez

Crown prayer / Sarah Arvio

Come back, come back / Jesse Ball

from During the pandemic / Rick Barot

Still life / Ellen Bass

Aprés moi / Erin Belieu

Dad poem / Joshua Bennett

Haunt / April Bernard

Ode / Jill Bialosky

Men waiting for a train / David Biespiel

Facetime / George Bilgere

Longer prayer / Sophie Cabot Black

Plague diary / Traci Brimhall

Say thank you say I'm sorry / Jericho Brown

Marvel / Stephanie Burt

New nice / Danielle Chapman

May day / Nicholas Christopher

After the Apocalypse / Ama Codjoe

Poem I wrote after I asked you if cereal can expire / Catherine Cohen

I see on Zoom he's growing taller by the day / Elizabeth J. Coleman

Sequestration / Billy Collins

At CVS wearing a mask I buy plastic Easter eggs for my daughters / Nicole Cooley

Sheltering in place / Peter Cooley

Weather heard as music / Timothy Donnelly

Corona diary / Cornelius Eady

Cards / John Freeman

Aubade / Forrest Gander

For the rookie neurologist in the plague / Suzanne Gardinier

Leaving Evanston / Deborah Garrison

Easter Sunday poem / Tammy Melody Gomez

Desert lily / Rigoberto González

COVID-19 lockdown, Easter weekend / George Green

If the cure for AIDS, / Linda Gregerson

Flowers for Tanisha / Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Six months from Patient Zero / Eliza Griswold

If indeed I am ill, brother, / Julia Guez

Voyages / Nathalie Handal

Equinox at home, 2020 / Brooks Haxton

Future of everything / Aleksandar Hemon

:::[a ragged white moth passes by]::: / Brenda Hillman

Eight people / Edward Hirsch

Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield

April / Richie Hofmann

Watching the full moon in a time of pandemic / Garrett Hongo

Ballina / Fanny Howe

Ides of March, 2020 / Didi Jackson

Invocation / Major Jackson

4/12/2020 / Fady Joudah

Mulberries / Stephen Kampa

I've been following a magnolia / Vincent Katz

My heart cannot accept it all

Susan Kinsolving

Elder Care / Ron Koertge.

Sheltering at home / John Koethe

from Requiem / Yusef Komunyakaa

Burning one / Li-Young Lee

Prism cell / Brad Leithauser

As if / Dana Levin

End of poetry / Ada Limón

Quarantine / Dave Lucas

American nurse forsees her death / Amit Majmudar

Batshit / Sally Wen Mao

Matzoh / Gail Mazur

I hear the wild birds singing tangled roads / Shane McCrae

Conditional / Maureen N. McLane

Corona / Dante Micheaux

Isolation, week two, sixth day of spring / Susan Minot ****

Dance/ Susan Mitchell

Storm / Kamilah Aisha Moon

Cheese, almonds, eggs / Jim Moore

Vallejo / Thomás Q. Morín

Because we want to imagine / Laura Mullen

Koan / Carol Muske-Dukes

April sixteen twenty twenty / Eileen Myles

Order to disperse / D. Nurkse

Two days in March / John Okrent

Poem for my students / Sharon Olds

And the people stayed home / Kitty O'Meara

Aftermaths / Tommy Orange

Tea for you, too / Ron Padgett

At the hardware store on the island (March 21, 2020) / Sarah Paley

Moonwalk in Vermont / Jay Parini

Sing a darkness / Carl Phillips

Quarantine / Patrick Phillips

Fantasia in a time of plague / Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Plague poem / Katha Pollitt

Meditation on transmission / Dean Rader

Weather / Claudia Rankine

April, Walkley Road / Clare Rossini

St. Sebastian interceding for the plague-stricken / Mary Jo Salter

Gone / Grace Schulman

April 5, 2020 / Vijay Seshadri

Pandemicon / Diane Seuss

Spillover / Brenda Shaughnessy

inoculation against innocence / Evie Shockley

Unwinding the wound / Elizabeth Spires

Three octets / Susan Stewart

Under juncos, the baby stones/ Tess Taylor

Existential / Anne Waldman

Apartment / Noah Warren

Naturally / Rosanna Warren

Canal nocturne / Rex Wilder

Onlookers and Reading Pascal in Quarantine / Christian Wiman

Private life / Mark Wunderlich

Concealed host / Jenny Xie

Stones and stars / Jeffrey Yang

Shine and Resurrection / Kevin Young

Poem for Rupi Kaur / Matthew Zapruder.