<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tuesday Reflections presents Ms. Elizabeth Cohen</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">, Associate Professor in the English Department, speaking on "The Correlation between Poetry and the Pandemic" on </span><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 4:30pm</b><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> in the Cardinal Lounge- Angell College Center.  Below is an abstract of Ms. Cohen's</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> presentation.  </span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4">The poems in Elizabeth <span class="gmail-il" style="">Cohen</span>'s fifth book of poems, <i style="">Wonder Electric</i>, address such topics as pandemic, gun violence, whale beachings, environmental disasters, family dynamics and more. Written in Joshua Tree, California ,last summer, these poems explore the pandemic experience...and she is not alone. There are literally thousands of publications from 2020, including anthologies and many more online publications featuring the works of poets on the pandemic experience. Some research <span class="gmail-il" style="">Cohen</span> undertook revealed that poetry and pandemics are established bedfellows. Poets have been writing about and during pandemics for centuries.  <span class="gmail-il" style="">Cohen</span> traces back and visits some of these writings and ponders the reason poets are so drawn to the topic and the different ways they explore it.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4">Bring a pen. We will write a pandemic poem during this talk.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;display:inline-block;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px">CHRISTINA LAGREE</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">Administrative Assistant 1</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">Office of the Dean, School of Arts and Sciences</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">101 Broad Street<br style="background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px">Plattsburgh, NY 12901</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><span style="background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word">(o) </span><a href="tel:+1-518-564-2180" title="Office Phone Number" style="background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(200,16,46);background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;display:inline" target="_blank">518-564-</a>3150</div><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/" title="State University of New York at Plattsburgh Link" style="background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,16,46)" target="_blank">plattsburgh.edu</a></div><p style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><br style="background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><img src="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/_images/about/suny-plattsburgh-email-logo.jpg" alt="State University of New York at Plattsburgh Logo" width="196" height="42" style="border-style:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;max-width:100%;height:auto;background-posi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