Marie Ponsot hunts for lost language skills June 28, 2010: Poet Marie Ponsot speaks to the New York Times about trying to regain lost language skills after a stroke. Last week, back in her apartment on the Upper East Side, Ms. Ponsot had help in her hunt for syntax, a tool more fundamental to human existence than the wheel: a rotating group of poets who come to read and talk with her. “I really [...] by Harriet Staff