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Collected Item: “The Mask”

Give your story a title.

The Mask

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text poem

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I wrote this poem during my senior year shortly after Providence College began its campus lockdown in September of 2020 in response to a major spike in COVID-19 cases. Unable to leave my apartment on campus for days at a time except to go for a walk by myself around campus, I felt the weight of the emotional impacts of the pandemic. I wrote the poem from a place of hurt and concern that my fellow students could not abide by guidelines to keep the campus community and the surrounding community safe. Masks were simultaneously hiding our fears while also being a constant reminder of them. I published this poem in the Portfolio section of The Cowl, Providence College's student-run newspaper. It appeared in the October 1, 2020 issue.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#mask, #lockdown, #pandemiccollege, #emotion, #creativity, #uncertainty, #thecowl, #providencecollege

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.thecowl.com/portfolio/the-mask

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Sarah Heavren

Give this story a date.

2020-09-24
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