Barricaded Bards: Poems from the Pandemic - Softcover

Bender, Victoria; Booth, Carol; Depew, Karen; Duncan, Kay; Hayes, Kim; Horvath, Richard; Jacoby, Jay; Karson, Ann Tobias; Petz, Bill; Sartoris, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194201662X ISBN 13: 9781942016625

Publisher: ArsPoetica, 2021

Synopsis

Petrarch, Dante, Shakespeare all wrote during times of quarantine and epidemic. So, too, have poets at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of North Carolina Asheville. When Covid-19 precluded the many face-to-face gatherings that occurred prior to the shutdown, a group of seventeen OLLI poets with a passion to continue writing and sharing their work with fellow writers assembled online. They called themselves the Barricaded Bards.Each week one member selected a topic. On the basis of this prompt, poets wore a poem for that week on a wide variety of unusual, amusing, and challenging topics, now appearing in this collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: ArsPoetica
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194201662X
• ISBN 13: 9781942016625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120