A Plate of Pandemic
Published Semi-annually on the Solstices
Creativity in Times of Crisis
William Heath, Professor Emeritus (English Department, Mount St. Mary’s University), is the author of two poetry books, The Walking Man and Steel Valley Elegy; a chapbook, Night Moves in Ohio; three novels: The Children Bob Moses Led (winner of the Hackney Award), Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake's Path; a work of history, William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest (winner of two Spur Awards); and a collection of interviews, Conversations with Robert Stone. www.williamheathbooks.com
Twelve-hours shifts in the ICU watching Covid-19 patients take their last dwindling breaths, unmasked people standing vigil outside the hospital insist their relatives on ventilators only have the flu. If the hospital claims otherwise, it’s to get more federal dollars. Local preachers praise a God stronger than any virus since true believers who pray […]