The POM | AUGUST THEME
The POM Hosts Mental Health & Poetry Month for August
Introducing Monthly Themes to The POM. Our kick-off month is an important one.
For the month of August, The POM is kicking off a theme: Mental Health & Poetry. Throughout the month, we’ll explore this topic through our work as we move toward openness, acceptance, authenticity, and connectedness through our poetry. We’ll show each other empathy. We’ll analyze our own connections between our need to poet and our own mental health. We’ll confess our struggles. We’ll make peace with how our minds work.
And through it all — we will grow.
Take a look at this:
Dr. Ludwig looked at more than 1,000 prominent people in eight creative-arts professions and 10 other professions. He concluded that psychiatric disturbances were much more common among the artists. Dr. Ludwig found that roughly 20 percent of eminent poets had committed suicide, compared with a suicide rate of 4 percent for all the professions he examined. The suicide rate in the general United States population is around 1 percent, he said. — NY Times article, Going Early Into That Good Night by By Felicia R. Lee
