A collection of poems written weekly near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The project was a means of confronting the many changes and unknowns of the moment, and finding a way to use the near-endless free time to make something meaningful. The poems were meant to be raw, and were finished the same day. 

At that time, I wrote: “I hope they make this strange time easier. Or at least that they suspend our messy, uncomfortable new reality for a moment, so that it can be looked at and maybe even understood.” Now, they serve as a catalogue of my state of mind and the state of the world in early 2020. 

A small number of typewritten prints were offered for sale. Some of the poems were also printed onto artwork by artist Endriu (J. Andrew Gilbert) in a collaborative art project. You can find Endriu’s art here.