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Pandemic Publishing
- Call for Submissions
- 3.29.20 Irina V. Wang
- Let Yourself Be Lifted Jackie Scott
- Art Is Everything Jen Liese
- Two Poems Ella Rosenblatt
- Living Room Dance Party Ariel Wills
- On Walking When Walking Is Advised Against Keavy Handley-Byrne
- Untitled Cita Devlin
- Ads in Corona Hannah Oatman
- COVID-19 and Communitas Elaine Lopez
- A Time for Pie Elizabeth Burmann
- How to Stay Motivated When You’re Stuck at Home Clarisse Angkasa
- Coerced Harmony (A Tour) Hammad Abid
- Zooming In and Out Tongji Philip Qian
- [Form] Ciara Carlyle
- Hi.txt Dan Luo
- A poem about boredom, a composite Maixx Culver-Hagins
- Eyewitness News Tristram Lansdowne
- Distance Maps Marcus Peabody
- Therapeutic Suggestion Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi
- Keep Your Heart Six Feet Away From Mine (and other moments)Arielle Eisen
- Twenty Instructions for COVID-19 Charlott Isobel Dazan
- Cuerno 1 y 2 Yan Diego Estrella Wilson
- A Monolith of Grief Regarding the Absence of Touches, or Letter to a Future Lover García Sinclair
- Coronavirus by the Thousands Drew Dodge
- Two Poems Kathryn Li
- Beds Are Burning Aleks Dawson
- Still Lifes Yidan Wang
- Fragments of Seva Jagdeep Raina
- Packing Up and Staying Woojin Kim
- Chronic Pain and Fermentation Ralph Davis
- Quarantine Letters Hannah Moore
- Sounds of Silence: An Isolation Soundscape Dara Benno
- 14 Day Detox for Designers Erica Silver
Let Yourself Be Lifted
Jackie ScottMFA TX 2020
Rushing water, Narragansett Beach. Photo by the author.
As a current thesis-year grad student, I’ve been struggling to keep up high spirits and the motivation to make work right now. My thesis is about creating community and dialogue around potentially isolating experiences of grief—and about the grief-healing qualities of water—and the work does feel relevant to this particular moment in time. I’m trying to find solace in that and in the importance of continuing to make beautiful things even when times are dark. I recently interviewed a good friend of mine, the artist Sheila Novak, for this project, and she sang a song for me that I want to share with you. She said that it’s something she sings to herself frequently because it “acknowledges being in a low place and also asks us how we give to the world,” a task that is certainly challenging in times of grief but can also be a way to help maintain hope. I hope it brings you some comfort and perhaps a reason to keep making art.
“Hallelujah” by MaMuse, sung by Sheila Novak
Every time I feel this way
This old familiar sinking
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
By and by
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
It’s been said and I do believe
As you ask
So shall you receive
So take from me these troubles
Bring me sweet release
Where the river will never run dry
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
By and by
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
There is a river in this heart of hearts
With a knowingness
Of my highest good
I am willing
I will do my part
Where the river will never run dry
This river will never run dry
Every time I feel this way
This old familiar sinking
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
I’m gonna let myself be lifted
By and by
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
It’s been said and I do believe
As you ask
So shall you receive
So take from me these troubles
Bring me sweet release
Where the river will never run dry
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
By and by
I will lay my troubles down by the water
Where the river will never run dry
There is a river in this heart of hearts
With a knowingness
Of my highest good
I am willing
I will do my part
Where the river will never run dry
This river will never run dry