The Night Air: COVID Poetry Project

How to Contribute

the night air COVID poetry project is a community poem created using techniques similar to the french surrealist poets. One of these surrealist parlor games, called "Exquisite Corpse" was intended to democratize poetry creation by turning creative writing into a social game.

Here, we invite you to collaborate in a massive surrealist poetry game. To contribute to the collaborative poem, answer all of the questions below using one or two words.

Q1: How have you been feeling during the pandemic?

Adjectives are words or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Q2: What was important to you before that is no longer essential?

Nouns are words (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).

Q3: What ritual or behavior from the past will you carry forward?

Verbs are a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Q4: Describe your experience with isolation.

Adjectives are words or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Q5: What is the most important thing in your life now?

Nouns are words (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).

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