Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond
Paperback 208 pages English Jan 03, 2022
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Once a week, seven writers--all retired from professional careers--spend two hours together. The purpose of their gathering is to discuss what they wrote the previous week. For a number of years prior to 2020, the group met in their homes over coffee. The pandemic changed that. Members could not hug at Zoom meetings. Then on May 25th, a white policeman pressed his knee to a Black man's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Other officers looked on with chilling nonchalance as he pleaded, "I can't breathe." A seventeen-year-old girl captured it all on her cellphone, and the world exploded. The process of putting down their thoughts about the cascading events of the year helped the group weather the challenges of 2020 and beyond. Inside Writing While Masked are personal pieces--writings of the moment, essays that reflect, and poems that express raw emotion. They include thoughts about what the authors experienced and learned, and what they want for the future. Most of all, they are words of hope.
- Author:
- Mary Ann Gonzales, Tyson Greer, Wanda Herndon, Laura Celise Lippman, Jane Spalding, Suzanne Tedesko, Beth Weir
- Publisher:
- Washington State Univ Pr
- Publication Date:
- Jan 03, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1638640017
- ISBN-13:
- 9781638640011