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At The Guardian, Rory Carroll writes that Ireland's health officials are employing poetry for social distancing campaigns while companies and charities are commissioning poems for public health announcements.

At NPR, Lynsey Jeffery alerts readers to a stark reality: Shakespeare's Globe theatre may not survive the Covid-19 pandemic without support from the government.

At the New York Times, Alexandra Alter writes about publishers who, in an effort to stay timely, are sprinting to publish books that address the Covid-19 pandemic.

James Parker's latest article at The Atlantic draws readers' attention to The Ancient Mariner Big Read, a streaming digital-interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem co-curated by Philip Hoare, Angela Cockayne, and Sarah Chapman, commissioned by the...

On All Things Considered, reporter Eyder Peralta speaks with Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin, who, amidst lockdowns across the continent of Africa, is inviting African poets to read and record poetry to express and reflect...

In an article at the New Yorker, Stephen Greenblatt reminds us that William Shakespeare was born mere months before the plague began to kill villagers in his hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Questions about our current "mid-corona" moment are brought into a new light when Andrew Choate holds them up to Fernando Pessoa's musings from an earlier, similarly existential time.

Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos called into the virtual green room of Zócalo Public Square (an "ASU knowledge enterprise") to talk about Swedish detective fiction, seeing into the future, and the past.

With the cancellation of the March Split This Rock Poetry Festival as his starting point, Brandon Shimoda's latest contribution to futurefeed illuminates concepts like ancestry, silence, and shame within Japanese American literature, all set before the backdrop of the...

The LA Times takes a look at how FDR wisely supported writers through the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Writers Project.