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Are We Hard-wired for Poetry?
What neuroscience research—and poets and educators—are saying about the benefits of reading poetry: get more poetry into your life.
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The Healing Power of Poetry: Appreciating a Primal Pleasure
One of our earliest and most fundamental pleasures as humans is the sensory delight of language. Studies are finding that reading and writing poetry can have a therapeutic effect.
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Exchanging devotion
The subject line of an email caught my attention last month: Devotional Exchange.