With Extreme Prejudice: Lest We Forget is Emmett Wheatfall's latest foray into observational truth-telling. This collection bears witness to the early arrival and historicity of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Wheatfall elegantly describes as The greatest hitchhiker on earth ... / making its rounds ("Every Nation Under The Sun"). In poem after poem, he explores both the ongoing fear of a disease that has taken at least a million lives as well as the hope for that brighter future we all yearn for. -Carolyn Martin, from the Foreword