From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian

Send us Fan Mail A 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 classroo...