In her genre-bending videopoem, Varsha Dutta Pujari tries to offer a lyric for the inhumane and terrifying emergency that the covid-19...

Journalist Kate Bartlett mourns the closing of bars during the pandemic but then finds an unlikely and macabre place to enjoy a cocktail in...

Professor Sherry Zane taught a large lecture class this Spring 2020 called "WGSS 1105 Gender & Sexuality in Everyday Life." Given the...

A daughter and a mother find their groove again as lockdown forces them to bond in the kitchen, sharing recipes and catching up on lost...

As the coronavirus pandemic creates mass food insecurity , Filipino-American writer Beverly Parayno finds that secondhand memories of her...

In Tirana, Albania, lockdown has plunged the usually noisy city into a difficult and uneasy silence. Genta Nishku's lyric essay "Silent...

Human rights advocate, Savita Pawnday, reflects on living a pandemic through two places, India and the U.S. She is particularly concerned...

In this spoken word dispatch from London, Layla Maghribi observes that the pandemic has revealed the cracks in our systems and institutions...

Somali-Italian writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah shares an excerpt from the novel she has been working on. As the pandemic forced people...

In Anna Badkhen's story "Queen of Sheeba Gourmet Burger," told in the first person, a woman spends her hours in an outdoor café in Addis...

Stardust is a flash fiction video written and filmed by Hassan Ghedi Santur. On the three hundred and twenty-third day of lockdown, an old...

Poet Juliane Okot Bitek commemorates the 26th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda by reading poems from her award-winning book 100...

Jehan Bseiso reads "Sunrise on Mars," a work in progress during the pandemic. Thank you, Warscapes, for this opportunity to share during...

L’Amour au temps du corona by Ari Gautier (Hommage à Gabriel García Márquez) Suzanne Correa ne savait que faire devant le policier...

I’ve been thinking about two things in Baltimore, Maryland during the Coronavirus Pandemic, one of which is contact, and how essential...

Collaging during a pandemic. Melanie Hepburn describes herself as a "middle aged bundle of anxiety who exorcises her demons through power...

After speaking with Michael Bronner a few days ago, when he mentioned the Warscapes Corona Notebooks, I happened to prepare for the next...

Lebanese poet Jawdat Fakhreddine reflects on the crisis with two new works, "A Street in the Pandemic" and "Microscope." His daughter, Huda...

As the world enters a state of prolonged lockdown, Ahmed Hezam Al-Yemeni welcomes us all to the party: His country, Yemen, had been in...

C'est comme si le temps s'était suspendu, le jour et la nuit semblent se confondre les voix d'hommes ne résonnent plus, il n'y a plus de...

The corona virus diary – a peek into the valley of the shadow of death. It first started as a body pain, then it intensified. The body...

"Cooking's become a way for me to slow down." Anna Arabindan-Kesson prepares recipes from her childhood with her two young sons during this...

Variation on cranes migrating elsewhere. Last week I picked up my violin for the first time in a month, and played music for the world...

Before the pandemic of Coronavirus, I was consumed with my own daily struggle. I wanted so badly to resume my life after twenty years of...

A coronavirus-themed TikTok compilation. Audrey Bonnoit was born and brought up in the French Alps but now lives in London. She is a...

I just finished a book, scheduled to be available from Bristol University Press in the first week of June 2020, called Rethinking Urbanism...

These Days Los Angeles, California One The Beginning. March 15, 2020 “These Days,” a visual diary, begins here, in my kitchen on Sunday...

The impact of the coronavirus on the lives of the Riruta people… Before corona came, Riruta was, and still is, termed as a low-income area...

Suchitra Vijayan reflects on living in New York City as the "circle of death" begins to close in. She makes connections to the events in...

A good friend of mine recently wrote on Facebook of her excessive fears of the virus, convinced should it invade her home it will kill her...