
Should I get really into writing poetry during quarantine? (A flowchart.)
Quarantine poetry: Cory Booker is doing it. Bob Dylan is doing it. Should you do it? That’s a question everyone must answer for themselves, but in honor of National Poetry Month, I created a flowchart to guide you as you wrestle with the question of These Times.

Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.