What Happened is Happening

Created throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems give outward expression to an inner experience of heightened uncertainty, longing for connection, reflection on the past, and hope for a future worth inhabiting. In this minimal, fragmented form-perfect for tired attention spans-the seeds of reimagining self and society are planted.  May they grow in beauty and resilience... Blackout poems are a form of erasure poetry. After marking through most of the words on a page of found text--from