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From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian
Send us Fan MailA poet’s recovery story rarely starts with a bus up Third Avenue and a rule about not writing while high. Ours does. We sit down with classicist and translator Aaron Poochigian to trace a line from an 18-year-old’s epiphany reading Virgil, through the isolation of lockdown and a cocaine addiction, to a disciplined practice of forest bathing in Central Park that rekindled creativity, routine, and joy.Aaron makes a compelling case that poetry shouldn’t be confined to classrooms. He opens up his new book, Four Walks in Central Park, a didactic poem that doubles as a tour and a…
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