Written during the early weeks of the Novel Coronavirus’s outbreak in North America, the poems of In Absentia document cultures on the cusp of devastation. These poems capture the fear, the grief, the defiance, and the hope of that first wave.
Poems selected and edited by Nkosi Nkululeko, Emily O’Neill, and April Ranger.
Poems meticulously typeset and formatted specifically for Kindle using Yellow Buick Review technology.
Includes new poems by sam sax, Leora Fridman, Michael Chang, Joanna Hoffman, Molly Bess Rector, C. Bain, Siaara Freeman, Kait Walser, M. Soledad Caballero, Tyler Gillespie, Sean Cho A., Nicole Callihan, Marina Weiss, Chelsea Williams, Juliana Gray, Ojo Taiye, Drew Pham, Molly Raynor, Aaya Perez, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Sara Brickman, Julia Gaskill, James Merenda, Liv Mammone, and Laura Brown-Lavoie.