Alzheimer’s Poetry Project : Online Resources

Home About APP Start an APP Sparking Memories Coming Events On Reading Poetry » Online Resources Contact APP Poets APP Poems APP Advisory Board APP Tax deductible donations may be sent to: Bowery Arts and Science c/o Gary Glazner 310 Bowery NY, NY 10012 All donations fund poets to work with people living with Alzheimer's disease.	Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' -Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Online Alzheimer’s Resources Study shows oscillations of heart rate and respiration synchronize during poetry recitation. Kate Allan and John Killick on making poems with people with dementia. The Poetry of Dementia: Art, Ethics and Alzheimer's Disease in Tony Harrison's Black Daisies for the Bride The Goldwater Writing Project This project is not on working with people living with Alzheimer's disease but is in a similar spirit. Alzheimer's Foundation of America Alzheimer's Poetry Project- Arizona on NBC Alzheimer's Poetry Project on WBHN Karen Stobbe- In the Moment -an amazing improv theater based program Glazner's article on using poetry with dementia for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America Glazner's Poetry Blog Bowery Poetry Club Bowery Arts and Science Glazner reading in Oklahoma City	From the book… Photo credit: Daniel Barsotti The Humor One of the men had been a Lieutenant Colonel, he had spent 30 years in the army, when I read a poem he doesn’t like, such as a rap version of “The Raven,” he gives me the thumbs down, when he approves he gives me a thumbs up. When I read a sad poem he plays an imaginary “air” violin. More from the book »
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