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Issue #3 Poetry of the Pandemic

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Kaye McDonough

Journal Excerpts

Wed., June 10

At the televised memorial for George Floyd, a pastor

calls out to a member of his choir:

“Lorraine, take us to the Valley.”

Lorraine brings it.

Mon., June 12

CASES DEATHS

2,275,645 119,923

Some Summer Reading for the Pandemic:

Poe. “The Masque of the Red Death”

Hawthorne. “Lady Eleanore’s Mantle”

(1721-22 Boston smallpox epidemic)

Ben Jonson. “On his Son” (1603)

DeFoe. Journal of the Plague Year

DeFoe. Robinson Crusoe (on social isolation)

Edith Wharton. “Roman Fever”

Henry James. Daisy Miller

Albert Camus. The Plague

For the ambitious:

Boccaccio. The Decameron

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