Kendall Hayes, the author of “Nature’s Conquest,” is an undergraduate student at UTA studying Computer Science. “The events and effects of current health involving COVID-19 brought about some personal experiences with me, as an African American male that had just started working at a grocery store. I chose to put together a poem for my submission because poetry makes it easier to look at the pandemic with a more social and nature-based side from the effects. Poetry is one of the most effective ways for an author to express their feelings to a large audience. This leads to a more appropriate atmosphere for the reader to understand the author’s feelings, and for them to create their own interpretations and feelings toward how others saw the events that happened during COVID-19. Though a lot of people tend to look at what the virus does to other humans, I prefer to look at it from an outside view, from other objects, in order to give a wider view on the happenings. I believe that the social and natural world will be changed far more than the physical sphere that people live in currently.”
