Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic

by B. J. Hollars and B.J. Hollars

In March 2020, as a pandemic began to ravage our world, writer and professor B. J. Hollars started a collaborative writing project to bridge the emotional challenges created by our physical distancing. Drawing upon Emily Dickinson's famous poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers," Hollars called on Wisconsinites to reflect on their own glimpses of hope in the era of COVID-19. The call resulted in an avalanche of submissions, each reflecting on hope's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870209779
• ISBN13: 9780870209772
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"