History of the Extra Terrestrial Poems from the Time of Corona

These poems were begun in late January 2020, around the advent of my knowledge of the Corona Virus Invasion. With my wife Miriam as videographer and great idea-person, for the last 14 years I have been writing and broadcasting a Saturday evening half-hour program, The Woodstock Journal, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. over the Public Access television studio at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock. I bring a DVD of each show from home to the station, and send it out to viewers over station equipment. While each show is running, I am free to write, work on my daily journal, or read. Last January 24, while The Woodstock Journal segment was being aired, I had a strange idea to write a poem about ‘Sassy the Saucer’. First I drew a Glyph of an extraterrestrial named Sassy, which, finished on the page, inspired the poem. Each Saturday evening, for the next 10 weeks, I drew a Glyph and wrote a poem about an extraterrestrial. Here they are, all fourteen of them.

Edward Sanders, Woodstock, NY, April 2020

Ed Sanders - The Ex-Terr Poems

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