{"title":"Much More Than Pretty Words: Poetry About the COVID-19 Vaccine Brings Healing and Community.","authors":"Nichole Egbert, David Hassler, Tyler Meier","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2521711","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In response to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Global Vaccine Poem (GVP) was conceived in 2021 as a way for people to experience social connection and express themselves through poetry. The GVP project is an online portal where anyone can contribute a stanza or entire poem to express how they were/are feeling or experiencing COVID-19 vaccine. As of 2024, over 2000 poems from all over the world and every U.S. state have been collected. The GVP has grown to be an archive, communicating people's lived experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also inspired a book of a subset of the contributed poems in 2022. In this essay, the GVP project is described through the EFECT model for poetry therapy to demonstrate how communication via artistic expression can be leveraged to provide therapeutic benefit and mark the significance of this global event.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health Communication","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2521711","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In response to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Global Vaccine Poem (GVP) was conceived in 2021 as a way for people to experience social connection and express themselves through poetry. The GVP project is an online portal where anyone can contribute a stanza or entire poem to express how they were/are feeling or experiencing COVID-19 vaccine. As of 2024, over 2000 poems from all over the world and every U.S. state have been collected. The GVP has grown to be an archive, communicating people's lived experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also inspired a book of a subset of the contributed poems in 2022. In this essay, the GVP project is described through the EFECT model for poetry therapy to demonstrate how communication via artistic expression can be leveraged to provide therapeutic benefit and mark the significance of this global event.
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As an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences, this noteworthy journal seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions and the public. Outstanding editorial board members and contributors from both medical and social science arenas collaborate to meet the challenges inherent in this goal. Although most inclusions are data-based, the journal also publishes pedagogical, methodological, theoretical, and applied articles using both quantitative or qualitative methods.
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