1 in 3 of the unhoused population of Boston have tested positive for COVID. We offer handmade masks, hand sanitizer, symptom screening, and calls to medical teams for those needing care.
We hear stories from the black men in our community about their experiences of racism and being targeted by the police.
Christie Towers is a poet and educator at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she is currently earning her MFA. She is on the pastoral care team for MANNA, a ministry for the unhoused community of downtown Boston at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. She has published poems in various journals, online and in print, most recently in Meridian, LETTERS Journal, and Cathexis Northwest. Her work has been featured in Ted Kooser’s project, American Life in Poetry. She is currently working on a collection of poems about the visions of Hildegard von Bingen.