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People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and
vaccine through poetryWhen so much in our lives ground to a halt in
the spring of 2020, no one knew how long the COVID-19 pandemic
would last. After long months of shutdowns, social distancing, and
worry, the first coronavirus vaccines were released in December
2020. In March 2021, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State
University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center launched the
website for the Global Vaccine Poem project, inviting anyone to
share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through poetry.
Dear Vaccine features selections from over 2,000 poetry submissions
to the project, which come from all 50 states and 118 different
countries. Internationally acclaimed author Naomi Shihab Nye, in
her introduction, highlights the human dimensions found across the
responses. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United
States, provides a foreword that contextualizes the global scope of
the problem, as well as the political and public health dimensions.
Making use of poetry's powerful tools to connect us across
division, Dear Vaccine reminds us that medical advances alone are
not enough to solve the vexing challenges of the pandemic; the
arts-and poetry-have a profound and critical role to play.
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