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I never figured that out

From a profile of Poet Laureate Billy Collins in today's New York Times. I'm also taken by the advice to read poetry instead of a timeline.

FOLLOWING I am a nonparticipant of social media. I’m not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance. So I can proudly say that I’ve never tweeted, but I am struck by the apparent coincidence of the 140 characters — sounds like a Balzac novel — and the 140 syllables in the Elizabethan sonnet. Instead of tweeting that you had great pizza tonight, why not read some haiku by Buson? Doesn’t poetry seem just right for our ever shrinking attention spans? O.K., never mind.

Poetry helps patient care

For the past year, the National Aspergillosis Centre (NAC) based at the University hospital of South Manchester has employed writer in residence, Caroline Hawkridge, to work with patients and staff, because of a conviction that word exploration is already boosting the effectiveness of the care given by its health staff...

For the past year, the National Aspergillosis Centre (NAC) based at the University hospital of South Manchester has employed writer in residence, Caroline Hawkridge, to work with patients and staff, because of a conviction that word exploration is already boosting the effectiveness of the care given by its health staff.

There's not as much here as I'd like to see about the approach that's been taken, but there's enough to let me know that I'd like to see the approach use more widely.