Recordings of these are included with the following contributions where we have them. Some of the other contributions were read at a Zoom session in Ledbury’s online Festival in July 2020. This poem was later made into a short film that is now on YouTube Thank you to everyone for their contribution. I have found these poems extremely resonant, and I hope you will too. Other ways of thinking about, or seeing, what is happening in this present time. Nonetheless, in reading these poems, I find reflections on, and insight into, my own experiences. I am aware, as many people are, that for people and places in the world, the challenges are huge and sometimes extremely harrowing, compared to my own. Though of course everyone’s individual experience of this situation is unique. These poems were written during Lockdown and the Coronavirus pandemic, at a time when it seemed the whole country, and in fact the whole world was going through the same crisis. They read alongside poets who submitted to Ledbury Poetry Festival’s online call out. The event featured a fascinating selection of Lockdown inspired poems, including poets commissioned by LPF, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sarala Estruch, Suzannah Evans, Elaine Beckett and Kim Moore. On Sunday 5 July 2020 there was a Poetry of the Lockdown event as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival Online. Half Hour is always available on our website and on all of your favorite podcast platforms.Thank you to everyone who has submitted Lockdown poems. The show is produced by Patrick Zakem, mixed and edited by Matthew Chapman. Half Hour is hosted by ensemble members Cliff Chamberlain, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Caroline Neff, and Karen Rodriguez. The second season features conversations with an eclectic mix of practitioners: actors, playwrights, directors, designers, activists, leaders, managers and visionaries. And to discover what motivates them to create art. Released every other week, new episodes are a chance to sit down with personalities-old friends and new. Inspired by the most magical amount of time there is in the theatre-the thirty minutes before a show begins- Half Hour makes connections between artists inside and outside of the Steppenwolf family. Half Hour,Steppenwolf’s popular podcast, is back for a second season filled with candid conversations featuring some of the most vital personalities in American theatre.
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