Bøker av Jenna Goldsmith

Set against the backdrop of the poet's new home in the Pacific Northwest, Suppose the room just got brighter provides a snapshot of the beginning and endings of two relationships, and how the meaning of these relationships cannot be disentangled from the unfamiliar landscape she inhabits.

Like so many colleges and universities across the country, OSU Cascades ''went remote'' in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Faculty turned on a dime, shifting their courses from face-to-face to remote over the Spring Break holiday, and students hunkered down for a long term of Zooming.In the journal entries collected here, students reveal a range of emotional responses to being a college student during COVID, and in their own voices. We witness frustration, sadness at the loss of family and friends, a newfound appreciation for the simple pleasures of life, and confusion about what would come next. Collectively, what these students have in common is their station as first-term, first-year students grappling with the uncertainty and significant disruption brought on by a global pandemic.