A/PART gathers the multivalent and polyphonic voices of queer Southeast Asian poets who have experienced conditions and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It considers how we have been affected and transformed, creating a space for poems that reflect our diverse experiences during these troubled times.
The title of the digital anthology reflects how we have been separated from one another through social distancing, lockdown, community quarantine, and other measures devised to mitigate risk and exposure to the virus. And yet it also speaks of a shared experience, of be/longing, of how each of us becomes part of a bigger tapestry in such a fraught moment in history.