The Penny Poet of Portsmouth

This warm and thoughtful tale of mutual aid is a testament to the quiet strength of a community that chose to sustain art and friendship on the margins The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author’s friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is as well an elegy for a time and place—the New England seaport city of the early 1990s that has been lost to development and gentrification, capturing the