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NPM22 Blog: Why? And Why Now?: On Poetry and Companionship by Rob Taylor
My mother is disappearing. Diagnosed with dementia six years ago, in recent months her confusion has redoubled, her memories leaving and arriving as unpredictably as fish to the surface of a pond. If she goes out of her house for a walk, she can’t always find her way back. If she wakes up after a…
A Gathering of Poets in Response to Peril
How do poets respond to precarious events in the world? In his famous elegy for W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden says, “poetry makes nothing happen.” And he adds: “it survives, / A way of happening, a mouth.” “On Feb. 24, 2022, when the world woke to the shock of the catastrophic bombing of Ukraine,”…
NPM22 Blog: An Ecology of Intimacy: Through the Lens of Poetry by Penn Kemp
From Intimacy to Intimate, sans Intimidation. When asked to write a piece for National Poetry Month on Intimacy, who’s intimidated? Not me. I’ll just skip that ‘id’ and intimate softly what my heart wants…Yes, the heart wants intimacy, and who’s getting any, who’s getting too much in the last two years of involuntary isolation? My…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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