Great Regulars: Sylvia Plath did it in 1963,

Ann Sexton in 1974 and Reetika Vazirani (who also took the life of her son) in 2003 ... and now poet Deborah Digges has just committed suicide in Amherst, Mass.

Perhaps poets, more than others, are more prone to despair and depression. But if poetry is a form of self therapy, then those who write therapeutic personal poetry theoretically should be healthier than the average person, right? Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work that way.

from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: On Poetry: Perhaps it’s time for us to move past self indulgence

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