In this lesson, Writing the Community teaching artist Gabe Dozal draws connections between memes and poetry, and challenges students to make their own memes expressing their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic:

You can view the lesson's accompanying text (complete with links) here, and feel free to email your finished memes to pceducation@email.arizona.edu--we might even share them in a future blog post!

Gabriel Dozal received his MFA in poetry from The University of Arizona. He is from El Paso, TX and writes about the borderlands. He has work in The Literary Review, Guernica, and The Iowa Review.