“Poets have always been those we turn to as witnesses,” Quinn says. “Poets can crystallize a moment like this.” Novelists will likely take months and years to fully absorb the pandemic into their work ...

A collection of “tanka” poems about the COVID-19 pandemic that Gendai Tanka Kyokai (The association of contemporary tanka poets) published recently gives us a look back on the last three years.

As autumn sleds into winter, winners of the Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest all contain a ... Poet Andrew Laine reflects on painful remnants of the pandemic and how it has changed us all.