The July–August 2020 issue of Poets & Writers features thirteen quotes by “Authors on Creativity in Quarantine” describing how and why they can (or can’t) write during the lockdown. I like the defiance behind this thought:“I think writing is a form of protest. Over the past two decades, as an Asian American poet, I wrote more and worked harder as a form of protest. Oddly, today I feel similarly; I write now to tell off the pandemic. To prove that writing as an act can and will endure. It might not save us, but I know it will always be here for us” (Poet Victoria Chang). For more of my thoughts on writing, see REFLECTIONS.
