Meet Famous Poets Who Lived With Mental Illness
April 24, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Not only is April Cancer Control Month, but it’s also National Poetry Month!
As a writer, I can’t pass up the opportunity to share with you a list of poets with mental illness. These are just a few of the men and women who lived with mental illness and still managed to do what they loved – write poetry! (Of course, some would argue their mental health is what made the writers so talented, or that their careers as writers helped lead to their mental illness, but, that’s a completely different conversation altogether.)
Recognize any of these names?
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