A New Hampshire Poet Laureate Lifts Her City’s Covid-19 Advisories
They arrive each week. Words of light encouragement. Moments to reflect. On Sundays, thousands of residents of Portsmouth, N.H., find a poem nestled inside the city’s Covid-19 newsletter. The poems, written by Tammi J. Truax, the city’s poet laureate, help offset the gloom of the pandemic while giving residents a chance to pause briefly and…