{"product_id":"dear-vaccine-global-voices-speak-to-the-pandemic-paperback","title":"Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Hassler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTyler Meier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the midst of all this division around the world, something to bring us together.--PBS NewsHour\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeople from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen so much in our lives ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, no one knew how long the COVID-19 pandemic would last. After long months of shutdowns, social distancing, and worry, the first coronavirus vaccines were released in December 2020. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn March 2021, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center launched the website for the Global Vaccine Poem project, inviting anyone to share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through poetry. \u003cem\u003eDear Vaccine\u003c\/em\u003e features selections from over 2,000 poetry submissions to the project, which come from all 50 states and 118 different countries. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternationally acclaimed author Naomi Shihab Nye, in her introduction, highlights the human dimensions found across the responses. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, provides a foreword that contextualizes the global scope of the problem, as well as the political and public health dimensions. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking use of poetry's powerful tools to connect us across division, \u003cem\u003eDear Vaccine\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that medical advances alone are not enough to solve the vexing challenges of the pandemic; the arts--and poetry--have a profound and critical role to play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What would you say to the vaccine if it could hear you? \u003cem\u003eDear Vaccine\u003c\/em\u003e is an absolute treasure trove of personal, poetic responses. \u003cem\u003eWe are living through history, \u003c\/em\u003e I've said to my children. \u003cem\u003ePeople in the future will read about this time in books. \u003c\/em\u003eLucky for us, and lucky for them, one of those books will be this one. May the hope inside these pages be contagious.\"--Maggie Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKeep Moving\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDear Vaccine, \u003c\/em\u003e the genius of David Hassler, Tyler Meier, and Naomi Shihab Nye, gave us permission to put into words that which weighed on our hearts during the global pandemic. The messages of grief, endurance, and hope from all around the world can be found in this timely book of poetry written by the people who lived it and have poems to tell.\"--Donna S. Collins, executive director, Ohio Arts Council\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye, \u003c\/strong\u003e Palestinian American, is the Young People's Poet Laureate of the United States (Poetry Foundation). For 2019-2020 she was the poetry editor of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Sunday Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e Selected for Lifetime Achievement Awards by the National Book Critics Circle and the Texas Institute of Letters in both 2019 and 2020, she has conducted writing workshops all over the world and published more than 35 books of poetry and prose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Hassler\u003c\/strong\u003e is director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. He cofounded Traveling Stanzas, a national community arts project, and is the author or editor of nine books of poetry and nonfiction, including the play \u003cem\u003eMay 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTyler Meier\u003c\/strong\u003e is director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. His poems and prose have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePOETRY, Boston Review, Indiana Review, Bat City Review, Washington Square Review, At Length, Tupelo Quarterly, Arizona Republic, AGNI, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158280278151,"sku":"9781606354391","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/294b652937015af4e1c9cd93f0d7636c.webp?v=1733257573","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dear-vaccine-global-voices-speak-to-the-pandemic-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}