Tammi Truax, the Poet Laureate for Portsmouth, N.H., isn't spending her year quite as she expected. She'd planned multiple projects around the theme Poetry as a Bridge, including using poetry to build a meaningful relationship between the residents of Portsmouth and those of its sister city Nichinan, Japan. Covid-19 forced her to cancel her trip to Japan, and instead she has been composing poems to go into the city's weekly Covid-19 newsletter. I think she's absolutely brilliant, said Valerie Rochon, who leads the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. I look forward on Monday mornings to getting my week started with the wisdom and beauty she shares. A sample of Truax's work: The bramble extends / a thorny cane offering / perfect raspberries / while everywhere else I look / an imperfect world festers.

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