Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Alzheimer’s” by Concetta Principe.

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Alzheimer’s

By Concetta Principe

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Copyright © Concetta Principe

Concetta Principe has five books of poetry to her credit (Interference, Walking, Hiroshima, This Real, Disorder), two creative non-fiction projects (Stars Need Counting and Discipline N.V.: A Lyric Dictionary) and one book of fiction (Stained Glass). Interference, (Guernica Editions) won the Bressani award for poetry in 2000. Disorder, (Gordon Hill Press) was shortlisted for the Bressani Award for Poetry in 2024. She lives with a disability and teaches at Trent University, Durham.

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