A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Laurie Zupan is a veteran educator. She started teaching in 1985 and went back to school to study poetry in 1999. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Antioch University in 2001. She has taught grades kindergarten to college and currently works as an Intervention Teacher on Special Assignment. Laurie has published in magazines and journals including Ginosko and Writer’s Digest, and has written three books, including a collaboration with Tom Scherschel entitled A Fistful of Mud, a collection of poems and paintings to inspire children's creativity.
Words matter. What we call things matters. As a poet and writer, I know this better than I know almost anything else. When my father died, it was the greatest loss I had endured, but there were words to describe the feelings. The language of grief is well-known. But what we all have collectively […]