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To speak ill of the dead might be warranted in certain contexts, particularly when it comes to perpetrators of horrific crimes and undue abuse. However,…
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Psychiatric hospitals, or psych wards, are places that help rehabilitate those with serious mental health conditions. Here patients are provided with treatment for their disorders….
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Lindsay Young depicts the experience of living with social anxiety in their powerful spoken word poem “Social Anxiety.” Posted to Button Poetry’s YouTube channel, Young’s…
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The poems of author Charles Bukowski drudge through the mundane aspects of everyday life; but there is a bittersweet candidness to his observations that pull…
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Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
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Rubi Morgan’s slam poem “Therapist” details the experience of working as a helping professional while managing one’s own mental health. Morgan compares therapists to superheroes,…
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Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell says the poems he wrote were rarely addressed to anyone in particular. An exception was made, however, when a student of…
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In her spoken word poem “In My Favourite Memory of Her,” Reagan Myers reflects upon the beautiful moments shared with a friend who died by…
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Lisa Taylor’s poem “The Little Girl Within” bravely tackles the painful process of recovering from her experiences of childhood trauma. While the poem itself is…