INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and one Indianapolis woman wants to nurture compassion for those who suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy through poetry.

Liz Whiteacre is the author of “it could account for the panic,” a book of 15 poems associated with the disorder. An English professor at the University of Indianapolis, she joined Daybreak on Thursday morning to talk about the poetry collection.

Whiteacre says the book came about after a sufferer reached out to her.

“Indianapolis composer Meadow Bridgham was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy some years ago and wanted to write a song cycle about it. He reached out to me to write poems that then became songs. I asked him about turning it into a book length so that we could reach more people.”

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