This month the Black Earth Institute will post each day a creative piece of poetry, prose, rants and more. The Fellows and friends of BEI are committed to help all of us get through these days. Please share these works and be safe and we hope healthy.
- May2020
Mercy & Comfort
May 12, 2020
by Rachel Morgan
- Apr2020
…bear witness honestly
April 30, 2020
by Elizabeth Cunningham
WHEN THE WORLD ENDS
April 30, 2020
by Amanda Reavey
Angels
April 29, 2020
by Whitney Judd
The Dao of Nature
April 29, 2020
by Cristina Eisenberg
Canto A Coronavirus (now now now)
April 28, 2020
by Alma Luz Villanueva
Calm
April 28, 2020
by DJ Lee
Day 27
April 27, 2020
by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Meditation
April 26, 2020
by Elizabeth Brown
Melting Snow in Plague-Time
April 26, 2020
by Cait Johnson
Unlikely Thoughts in a Time of Peril | Aftermath
April 25, 2020
by Marilyn L. Taylor
CAME A SICKNESS
April 25, 2020
by Peggy Shumaker
Lonely/is the word now
April 24, 2020
by Patricia Spears Jones
Notes from the American Epicenter: a Diary
April 23, 2020
by Jacqueline Johnson
The Three Devils
April 21, 2020
by William Luvaas
A Pandemic Journal
April 20, 2020
by Alexis Lathem
Waiting for My Turn
April 19, 2020
by Majid Naficy
Pandemic Mercy
April 18, 2020
by Carmen Calatayud
Convalescence, With Flames
April 18, 2020
by Leslie Contreras Schwartz
Day Twenty-Two, Fourteen, and Forty-One
April 17, 2020
by Meg Muthupandiyan
Palm Sunday
April 17, 2020
by Austin Smith
An Amish Puzzle
April 16, 2020
by Mary Swander
Hindsight Mixtape 2020
April 15, 2020
by Kathleen Sweeney
Social Distancing
April 14, 2020
by Elise Paschen
On Misreading the Coronavirus Designation as CORVID-19
April 13, 2020
by Ned Balbo
vulnerable
April 12, 2020
by Claudia F. Savage
Comfort Song in a Time of Peril
April 11, 2020
by Marilyn Kallet
Forest Man
April 11, 2020
by Lauren Camp
The Bat and the Pandemic
April 10, 2020
by Taylor Brorby
Distāntia: “Neptune’s Handfasting”
April 9, 2020
by Petra Kuppers
Shelter
April 8, 2020
by Emily Frost & Cynthia Hogue
Andrew Jackson Is Contagious
April 7, 2020
by Richard Cambridge
All, Alone | Oh, Sheltering Bodies
April 6, 2020
by Kimberly M. Blaeser, PhD
WHEEL
April 4, 2020
by Annie Finch
This One Night: Pandemic as Time Out
April 3, 2020
by Brenda Peterson
No April Fools
April 2, 2020
by Pam Uschuk
by Elizabeth Cunningham