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High School and university students examine the COVID-19 pandemic's lasting impact from quarantine's isolation and alienation to lost teaching and learning opportunities and the reckonings made on what was lost and what was gained. Spanning three years of pandemic life, the selections invoke memory to provide a sense of closure and healing for the trauma that ensued. From pieces written in the gritty moments of the pandemicâs upheaval to recent reflections on the impact it has sown, this collection preserves studentsâ perspectives on the historical and life-changing end of the world as we knew it.
Contributors are: Jackson Allen, Leslie Anukwu, Amelia Ayotte, Tessa Benedict, Carmella Braniger, Arica Burns, Piper Charlton, Kathryn Coffey, Deborah Corr, Madelyn Cummins, Trinity Delgado, Connor Edwards, Aiden Etchason, Alexandra Gomes de Silva, Hannah Sullivan, Lyric Greenwood, Paris Halbert, Jack Hughes, Dezz Ingle, Nina Magalhães, Jaden McClain, Mariana Ruiz Nascimento, João Pajaro, Rochelle Pense, Beth Portman, Morgan Potter, Alyssa Reeter, Alexandra Ristfeldt, Breanna Rousseau, Gabriele Silvestre, Hannah Sullivan, and Evelyn Utterback.
Contributors are: Jackson Allen, Leslie Anukwu, Amelia Ayotte, Tessa Benedict, Carmella Braniger, Arica Burns, Piper Charlton, Kathryn Coffey, Deborah Corr, Madelyn Cummins, Trinity Delgado, Connor Edwards, Aiden Etchason, Alexandra Gomes de Silva, Hannah Sullivan, Lyric Greenwood, Paris Halbert, Jack Hughes, Dezz Ingle, Nina Magalhães, Jaden McClain, Mariana Ruiz Nascimento, João Pajaro, Rochelle Pense, Beth Portman, Morgan Potter, Alyssa Reeter, Alexandra Ristfeldt, Breanna Rousseau, Gabriele Silvestre, Hannah Sullivan, and Evelyn Utterback.
Carmella Braniger, Ph.D. (2003), Oklahoma State University, is a Visiting Professor of English at Wabash College where she teaches writing. Her chapbook, No One May Follow, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2009. She has also published essays, narrative poems, over fifty micropoems, and more than a dozen poetry sequences. She is the editor of several volumes in Brill's Critical Storytelling line, as well as co-editor of the series.
Madelyn Cummins is at 2024 graduate of Millikin University, where she majored in English.
Margaret Kusar graduated in 2023 with a BA in English from Millikin University. She now works on technical documents in the Creative department at Uline.
Madelyn Cummins is at 2024 graduate of Millikin University, where she majored in English.
Margaret Kusar graduated in 2023 with a BA in English from Millikin University. She now works on technical documents in the Creative department at Uline.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âCarmella Braniger, Madelyn Cummins and Margaret Kusar
1 Time and Disease
âMorgan Potter
2 Mental Health + Pandemic: A Collection
âTessa Benedict
3 Dear Self Quarantine
âJackson Allen
4 This Feels Like an Ending
âJack Hughes
5 Cloistered Feelings
âAlexandra Gomes Da Silva
6 Silently Breaking
âArica Burns
7 Life During the Pandemicââ¬Â¦
âLyric Greenwood
8 Pandemic Reflections
âNina Magalhães
9 The Quest for the Cheese Toastie
âHannah Sullivan
10 Pandemic Transport
âCarmella Braniger
11 Pause
âEvelyn Utterback
12 A Pandemic and the Downfall of Mental Health
âLyric Greenwood
13 Infographic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
âLyric Greenwood
14 A Crisis Exposed
âAiden Etchason
15 Pandemics in Film
âJack Hughes
16 The Conflict of COVID and Cops
âBeth Portman
Part 3: Because of It
24 One Year Anniversary
âArica Burns
25 Finding Myself in the Midst of a Pandemic, after Rick Barot
âAmelia Ayotte
26 Grateful
âJaden McClain
27 My Pandemic Story
âParis Halbert
28 Pandemic Hysteria
âBreanna Rousseau
29 Two Pandemic Poems
âDezz Ingle
30 The Other Side of the Bridge
âJoão Pajaro
31 Give and Take: The Things the Pandemic Made Me Realize
âRochelle Pense
32 Restless in Quarantine
âEvelyn Utterback
33 Relapse to Life Before
âEvelyn Utterback
34 ââ¬ÅThe End of Salvation,ââ¬Â A Fictional Story Inspired by COVID-19
âAlyssa Reeter
35 Post-Pandemic Paranoia
âTrinity Delgado
36 Pandemic Pains
âGabriele Silvestre
37 Double Time
âConnor Edwards
38 Artist Statement for Photographic Series Home Ground
âDeborah Corr
Epilogue: Students Highlighting Other Student Voices
âMadelyn Cummins
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âCarmella Braniger, Madelyn Cummins and Margaret Kusar
Part 1: In It
1 Time and Disease
âMorgan Potter
2 Mental Health + Pandemic: A Collection
âTessa Benedict
3 Dear Self Quarantine
âJackson Allen
4 This Feels Like an Ending
âJack Hughes
5 Cloistered Feelings
âAlexandra Gomes Da Silva
6 Silently Breaking
âArica Burns
7 Life During the Pandemicââ¬Â¦
âLyric Greenwood
8 Pandemic Reflections
âNina Magalhães
9 The Quest for the Cheese Toastie
âHannah Sullivan
10 Pandemic Transport
âCarmella Braniger
11 Pause
âEvelyn Utterback
Part 2: About It
12 A Pandemic and the Downfall of Mental Health
âLyric Greenwood
13 Infographic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
âLyric Greenwood
14 A Crisis Exposed
âAiden Etchason
15 Pandemics in Film
âJack Hughes
16 The Conflict of COVID and Cops
âBeth Portman
Part 3: Because of It
17 The 2-Year Rest
âEvelyn Utterback
18 Are We There Yet?
âPiper Charlton
19 Critical Storytelling from the Pandemic
âAlexandra Ristfeldt
20 Writing Journals as a Way to Stay Groundedin the Middle of the Chaos
âMariana Ruiz Nascimento
21 Looking Back Over COVID-19: Big Decision, Bigger Pandemic Problem
âLeslie Anukwu
22 Finding My Way through My Body and Voice
âKathryn Coffey
23 I Believe in Accidental Therapy
âHannah Sullivan
Part 4: After It
24 One Year Anniversary
âArica Burns
25 Finding Myself in the Midst of a Pandemic, after Rick Barot
âAmelia Ayotte
26 Grateful
âJaden McClain
27 My Pandemic Story
âParis Halbert
28 Pandemic Hysteria
âBreanna Rousseau
29 Two Pandemic Poems
âDezz Ingle
30 The Other Side of the Bridge
âJoão Pajaro
31 Give and Take: The Things the Pandemic Made Me Realize
âRochelle Pense
32 Restless in Quarantine
âEvelyn Utterback
Part 5: Beyond It
33 Relapse to Life Before
âEvelyn Utterback
34 ââ¬ÅThe End of Salvation,ââ¬Â A Fictional Story Inspired by COVID-19
âAlyssa Reeter
35 Post-Pandemic Paranoia
âTrinity Delgado
36 Pandemic Pains
âGabriele Silvestre
Part 6: Afterword
37 Double Time
âConnor Edwards
38 Artist Statement for Photographic Series Home Ground
âDeborah Corr
Epilogue: Students Highlighting Other Student Voices
âMadelyn Cummins
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