The event was filmed by the Public Access Community Television Duluth. There were a few UMD professors and affiliates who read at the event, including ELWS assistant professor Sara Sowers-Wills.
Dr. Sowers-Wills opens her reading with how her poems were written during the Coronavirus pandemic when her husband was diagnosed with cancer. She acknowledges her poems about survival have taken on new meaning in the current tumultuous climate. Listen to Dr. Sowers-Wills' poems and the other writers featured on YouTube.