This Was 2020

Ramsey County Library

Book Title: This Was 2020

Subtitle: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year

Author: Ramsey County Library

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Introduction
1. The Bear in the Window
  Brad McNutt
2. Early October
  Donna Isaac
3. when the world became quiet
  Wendy Brown-Báez
4. A Week of Gratitude in the Time of Coronavirus
  Sieglinde Gassman
5. Politics in the Time of Covid
  Betsy Leach
6. George Floyd, We Hear Your Cry
  Caroline Giles Banks
7. Storybook Pandemic
  Liz Husebye Hartmann
8. The Masks
  Peter Wolf
9. Covid-19 Call and Response and
  #whyimarch
  Arleta Little
10. What 2020 Feels Like
  Kristen Rohloff
11. Remembering for You
  Christine Kallman
12. The Morning After
  Greg Watson
13. Pandemic Haiku
  Becky Boling
14. Fear (Following George Floyd's Death—June 2020)
  Rabi Michael-Crushshon
15. Fall 2020
  Christine A. Sikorski
16. May 25, 2020
  Denise Alden
17. Welcome to the Wormhole
  Rory O'Rourke
18. You Were Never Safe
  Jordan Hirsch
19. The streets emptied out, but their lungs
  Moyosore Orimoloye
20. Plague Diaries – March 26, 2020 and In Response to Walt Whitman’s America
  Jennifer Hernandez
21. I knew I shouldn't be there!
  Yara Omer
22. My Nightly Walk
  Ginny Contreras Sawyer
23. something to say in 2020
  Debra J Stone
24. Human Renewal 2020
  Veronica J. Monroe
25. Sidewalk Gratitude, 2020 Reflections, and Vaccine
  Isaac Mielke
26. Day Two of the Riots
  Rebecca Ramsden
27. Living and Dying in Memory Care
  Dave Ryan
28. What Did You Do?
  Delta Giordano
29. The Last Normal
  John Aase
30. A Day in the Life of a Hmong Woman
  Mai Neng Moua
31. Sunday Dinner in the Pandemic
  Susan Coultrap-McQuin
32. Evanescent Spring
  Claudia Ionescu
33. What Was 2020?
  Catherine Isaac Lindquist
34. It Was 2020 and Also
  Patti Kameya
35. Pandemic Stroll
  Katie Vagnino
36. We are still on the pavement
  A. Everett Beek
37. Sweetgrass, Not Tear Gas
  Ihotu Jennifer Ali
38. To Kuv Niam
  Chee Vang
39. A Filipino in Minnesota
  Paul Gabriel L. Cosme
40. What I Saw
  Jessica Lucia
41. Black in White
  Susan Smith-Grier
42. My Experience at the George Floyd Memorial
  Evelyn Pierson
43. These Men
  David Mendez
44. 2020 Retrospective
  Josiah Lindstrom
45. Catalog of Loss
  Joan Maeda Trygg
46. Funeral During a Pandemic
  Audrey Kletscher Helbling
47. Stratiform
  Bella Aase
48. Quarantine Companions
  Evelyn D. Klein
49. My Life in 2020
  Sunshine Gudim
50. An Anxiety Exchange
  Stacy Lin
51. The Changing and The Aftermath
  Janet Wiche Brahier
Writing Prompts
Discussion Guide
Grief, Mental Health, and Anti-Racism Resources
Acknowledgments

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Title: This Was 2020
Author: Ramsey County Library
Editor: Ramsey County Library
Contributors: A. Everett Beek; Arleta Little; Audrey Kletscher Helbling; Becky Boling; Bella Aase; Betsy Leach; Brad McNutt; Caroline Giles Banks; Catherine Isaac Lindquist; Chee Vang; Christine A. Sikorski; Christine Kallman; Claudia Ionescu; Dave Ryan; David Mendez; Debra J Stone; Delta Giordano; Denise Alden; Donna Isaac; Evelyn D. Klein; Evelyn Pierson; Ginny Contreras Sawyer; Greg Watson; Ihotu Jennifer Ali; Isaac Mielke; Janet Wiche Brahier; Jennifer Hernandez; Jessica Lucia; Joan Maeda Trygg; John Aase; Jordan Hirsch; Josiah Lindstrom; Katie Vagnino; Kristen Rohloff; Liz Husebye Hartmann; Mai Neng Moua; Moyosore Orimoloye; Patti Kameya; Paul Gabriel L. Cosme; Peter Wolf; Rabi Michael-Crushshon; Rebecca Ramsden; Rory O'Rourke; Sieglinde Gassman; Stacy Lin; Sunshine Gudim; Susan Coultrap-McQuin; Susan Smith-Grier; Veronica J. Monroe; Wendy Brown-Báez; and Yara Omer
License: THIS WAS 2020:
Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year
Collection © Ramsey County Library
Copyright for each individual work belongs to the author.
All rights reserved.
Publication of this book was made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Cover at by Carolyn Olson (Grocery Store Cashier and Bagger, Essential Workers Portrait #1)
Cover design by Pa Na Lor.
Ramsey County Library
4560 N. Victoria St.
Shoreview, MN 55126
Primary Subject: Society and culture: general
Additional Subject(s): c 2020 to c 2029, Minnesota
Publisher: Ramsey County Library
Publisher City: Shoreview, Minnesota
Publication Date: May 31, 2021

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