Rattle :: Tribute to Poets Living with Mental Illness

The summer 2017 issue of Rattle features a tribute to poets living with mental illness. “An estimated 26% of Americans experience mental illness in a given year,” write the editors, “and we wanted to acknowledge and explore that reality, while also helping to diminish the associated cultural stigma of these illnesses. [. . . ] While the topics of the poems themselves vary greatly, each of the poets live with some form of depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, bi-polar, post-traumatic stress, or eating disorder—all of discussed openly and bravely in their contributor notes. In the conversation section, we talk about mental illness and a wide range of other topics with Francesca Bell.” [Cover Art by Jasmine C. Bell.]