“The Land of No Children” — When Poetry Taps into a Foreboding Future

Vanessa Blakeslee
8 min readMar 20, 2020

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

~Saint Augustine

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I’m finding myself unable to write these days, something I hope will pass as we all adjust to the new reality brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the mood swings — from anxious to tearful, to surprisingly sedate periods…

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).