Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program | Building Community Through Poetry

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Web Name: Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program | Building Community Through Poetry

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Tammi J. Truax is the 12th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth.Tammi, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, works with fourth-grade writers at an elementary school and as a Connections program facilitator for the NH Humanities Council teaching new adult readers. She has lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, and Germany, and has taught in a variety of nontraditional settings from preschool to prison.In 2008, with NH poet Kyle Potvin, Tammi founded the non-profit The Prickly Pear Poetry Project: Processing the Cancer Experience Through Poetry. Children’s literature is a lifelong passion for her and she has several picture books ready for a publisher.She was editor of a new release of Lady Wentworth; A Poet’s Tale by Henry Longfellow (illustrated) (Bookbaby, 2013), and released her debut novel Broken Buckets, as an eBook the same year.Her Portsmouth Poet Laureate Project is called Poetry as a Bridge . Learn more Poetry as a Bridge Each month a Poem from the Hoot is featured here, as well as in the Portmouth Herald. Esther Buffler ResidencyIn 2002, friends and family of Esther Buffler, our first Poet Laureate, set up a memorial fund that will enable the Poet Laureate Program to arrange an annual residency for a poet-in-residence in the Portsmouth School Department.Following her death, a residency was endowed to allow a selected to poet to spend part of a week (compensated) in the Portsmouth Public School system. Learn more Keep in Touch with us!Join our mailing list to receive the latest news, events, and other updates. We typically send 1-2 emails per month.

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