From the project website: "During #verselove, I received some emails from our community about developing a project to archive the beautiful poetry being created as a way of celebrating the compassionate community of teacher-writers in this space. Further, as we wrote during this spread of COVID-19 and global quarantine, it became clear that COVID-19 made its way into the poetry explicitly (poems about the impact of the pandemic) and implicitly (poems reflecting experiences before, apart from, and beyond its reach).

How best to document this? How best to capture the evolving, dynamic, transformative and evolving impact of our writing on teaching, our teaching on writing, COVID-19 on poetry, poetry on COVID-19?

A oral history project is one way. We would interview one another about the writing experience, read poetry, discuss the past, present, and future. It would be our voices, our words, and we could archive them as primary source documents for future generations."