A Poet Showcases His Art, Even If His Mind Won’t Go Along

Poet Reed Whittemore recently published an illuminating memoir, and has been conducting readings at bookstores to promote it. But Whittemore “is also 88 years old, with a memory that has betrayed him. Vascular dementia is the culprit, and it sometimes leaves him confused as well. Friends and family stand by to read in case he can’t.”