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Cover: “Isolation” by Marcel Herms

Collection · 2026

Covid Times — Library Edition

OAF Artists & Writers

Poetry, photography, and art from the Open Arts Forum community during the pandemic. This Library edition gathers 49 works by 28 contributors from the original 2020 showcase. The cover features “Isolation” by Marcel Herms.

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49 published works · 28 contributors

  1. Sarah ClancyMay 2020
  2. Sarah ClancyBenediction for a Baby Born in 2020
  3. Daniel J. Flore IIINERVE-ORONI
  4. Daniel J. Flore IIIPandemica
  5. Daniel J. Flore IIIQuarantinea
  6. Daniel J. Flore IIISocial Distancing Lap Dance
  7. Daniel J. Flore IIIPfizered
  8. Sonja Benskin Mesher.lockdown ladder 1.
  9. Sonja Benskin Mesher.lockdown ladders 2.
  10. Sonja Benskin Mesher.lockdown ladder 3.
  11. Silent Lotuson INSTAGRAM
  12. Silent LotusThe Morning Sky
  13. Silent LotusTea Leaves & toothpicks
  14. Jordan TretheweyFirst Good Friday of the New Ice Age
  15. Jordan Tretheweyfirst pandemic girlfriend
  16. Trish SaundersKNOWING
  17. Trish SaundersTOMORROW
  18. Dick HolmesSpring Break Without End
  19. Dick HolmesDistancing
  20. StarrLockdown
  21. Soodabeh SaeidniaUntitled
  22. Soodabeh SaeidniaBarrier
  23. Soodabeh SaeidniaBelongings Got Some Rest (as of April 2020)
  24. Jefferson CarterPLAGUE MASK
  25. Jefferson CarterSHELTERING AT HOME
  26. Paul BrookesWhen The Clapping Stops
  27. Paul BrookesHospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)
  28. Miya KoFace Mask
  29. Tiko Lewisslave songs—2020
  30. Lawrence George::six pack of Mexican beer::
  31. Cameron McClurePublic Safety Advice
  32. Cameron McClureLockdown–Week 1
  33. Eliot JacobsonPandemic v. Pandemic
  34. Marcel HermsIsolation
  35. Marcel HermsHorror show (a picture of tomorrow)
  36. Marc WoodwardThunder at Key West
  37. Marc WoodwardLockdown Day No.?
  38. Mir-Yashar SeyedbagheriA Laugh
  39. Martina RimbaldoThe housejail (photography)
  40. Mike Casettacovid-culture
  41. Mike Casettacovid-haiku
  42. Mary McCarthyAgainst Contagion
  43. Andy PosnerA COVID-Safe Love Poem
  44. Andy PosnerHow to Prepare for a Coup in a Pandemic
  45. RC JamesLovers' Communiques in the Plague Year
  46. Jenn ZedLockdown 2021
  47. Cat JonesFor the Love of God Put a Mask On
  48. Lance JencksAnother Inside Day
  49. Julie DesmondRefrigerator Trucks