Commonplace listener Hannah and former Commonplace guests David Trinidad, Alice Notley, John Murillo, Tina Chang, Ada Limón, Cathy Park Hong and M. NourbeSe Philip share personal updates on their experience with the COVID 19 outbreak with host Rachel Zucker. They discuss where they are, who they’re with, and how they’re doing. Topics include; caring for children, worrying about fascism, living along, 9/11, AIDS, anti-Asian/Asian-American racism, and finding the indigenous language of the cosmos. Music by Jay Hammond and the band Trippers & Askers. M.NourbeSe Philip concludes the episode with a reading of a new piece “Covidian Catastrophes.”