June 25: PSNH Presents (via Zoom) – Ann Wallace on Writing Through Long COVID and Illness
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Date(s) - June 25, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Join Poetry Society of New Hampshire for a virtual conversation with poet Ann Wallace as she discusses writing through long COVID and illness. Ann will provide writing prompts and read from her from her collection, Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul (Kelsay Books, 2024).
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Ann E. Wallace, PhD is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Jersey City, New Jersey. As a long-time survivor of ovarian cancer, a woman with multiple sclerosis, and one of the nation’s first Long Covid patients, she has lived and written through illness for more than thirty years. Pain, disability, and disease—as well as hope and resilience—have informed her work as a poet, memoirist, patient advocate, and scholar. Her collection Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul (Kelsay Books, 2024) was written over three years, following her long journey of recovery. She has published and made media appearances regarding COVID for Huffington Post, USA Today, Good Morning, America, NPR, and elsewhere and serves on the NIH Recover Initiative. Wallace’s first collection Counting by Sevens was published by Main Street Rag. Wallace is Professor of English at New Jersey City University and co-hosts and produces The WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry and Plants for the Native Plant Society of New Jersey.