How students use poetry to cope with stress of school, love lives
Andrew Denning | Contributing Photographer
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Cody Benbow’s poem ideas come to him at random. A bus ride to campus, whether that be from South Campus or Rochester, can inspire his future pieces.
“It’s really a good way to kind of just distill all the chaos going on in your mind, especially over the past year,” said Benbow, a Syracuse University junior.
April is National Poetry Month, and during the pandemic some Syracuse University students have turned to poetry to heal and express their emotions about topics like stress, school or their love lives. Some poetry professors encourage their students to use poetry to discover something about themselves or the world around them.