During the pandemic we have been told our communities will re-open in phases. This series of poems reminds us that while we suffer through the closing, there is an opening to be found in each phase, and that our communities will never be the same. As our cities and towns reinvent themselves after isolation, we ask you to promote not just a re-opening, but a re-forming—a re-forming that elevates people of color.
Lynne Ellis writes in pen. Her poems appear in WA 129, Papeachu Review, PageBoy, and other journals. Some of her words were adapted for the stage by Gonzaga University. Obsessed with page craft, Lynne was a double-finalist for Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel award and a mentee in AWP’s Writer-to-Writer program. Her full-length collection, In these failing times I can forget, is available through Papeachu Press.
Lynne is the recipient of the 2018 Red Wheelbarrow poetry prize which resulted in the broadside, Seamstress, from Moving Parts Press. Broadsides of the two poems available on this page are here for the posting and printing, please share widely.
Find more from the MPP Digital Poetry Series here.
Phase 1
Phase 1.5
Phase 2
Phase 1 (again)
Phase 2 (again):
Phase 3:
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