Poetry and a Loved One’s Dementia

Poetry On The Air

Poetry and a Loved One's Dementia

Show Notes

Washington poet Carla Griswold speaks movingly about how poetry has helped sustain her through the progression of her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease, and she shares poems that have come from their difficult journey together. (Part 2 of a two-part conversation originally broadcast May 28,2021)


About Poetry On The Air

Poetry can enrich our lives. We explore this topic through interviews, discussions, spoken poems live, recordings of local poetry events as well as audio of major and minor poets from the early 20th century to the present.

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