April 13, 2020
Poems for the Pandemic
Poetry inspired by the coronavirus crisis by Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate and director of Lewis & Clark’s Northwest Writing Institute, was recently featured in the Oregonian.
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Poetry inspired by the coronavirus crisis by Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate and director of Lewis & Clark’s Northwest Writing Institute, was recently featured in the Oregonian. Follow the link to the Oregonian to hear him read some or follow along for his daily pandemic poems.
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