Featuring pandemic poetry by Richard Blanco, Molly Peacock, Ellen Bass, Gary Fincke, Connie Post, Melanie Simms, Christine Gelineau, Jason O’Toole, David Swanger among many others.
“In a dark time the eye begins to see,” wrote Theodore Roethke. The poets of this remarkable collection are the eyes by which we begin to see not only the darkness of our harrowing COVID year but also the strength, the necessary strength, to write and create in the midst of it all. In that way, this collection is both a document and a promise of what we can all summon in order to persevere.
-Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing, Winner of the Berlin prize, Yale University
About the Author
Jason O’Toole is the author of three poetry collections, Poison Moonlight, Soulless Heavens, Spear of Stars and has been featured in over a hundred anthologies, journals and newspapers. His poem “Samsara” which debuted in The Scrib Arts Journal, was nominated for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award. He is a member of the North Andover Poet Laureate Committee.
To Purchase
Poets with Masks On
Finishing Line Press
Paperback, 96 pp., January 2022
978-1646627301