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Web Links
Nursing inspired poetry: http://www.nurses.info/nursing_poetry.htm

Utilizing The Arts To Minister To Self And Others (Assessment Tool)
http://www.luc.edu/faculty/mmcderm/gnur469arts.html

"Attempting to say something without saying it ...": writing haiku in health care education http://mh.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/29/1/39

Information on reading poetry: http://www.poets.org/bookclub/index.cfm

Wonderful Poet's Who write about important issues!

Robert Bly: My Father at 85

Amy Gerstler: Check out her book "Medicine" (2000) published by Penguingroup ISBN 0140589244