A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Alexandra Burack is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, editor, and author of On the Verge (Plinth Books). Her recent work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Broad River Review, ORLANDO, Roi Fainéant, Ink & Marrow, FreezeRay Poetry, and $ Poetry is Currency, and is forthcoming in Spillway Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Lumina Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and Emerge Literary Journal. She is AZ Master Teacher/ Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ), and serves as a volunteer Poetry Reader for The Los Angeles Review. Follow her on X/Twitter: @AlixBurack and Instagram @crwprof.
–after Weldon Kees Crumpled between dumpster and fire door, whites of her eyes stippled red, scream stiff in a tin-gray face. No surprises anymore I overhear the forensic guy sigh. All the usual, plus we got the month’s food stamps ripped and stuffed in her panties. May the men who kill, starve. […]