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Roadside Poem Combats Pollution – Literally

WORDS Posted: May 15, 2014 12:57 am

“‘Poetry makes nothing happen,’ William Butler Yeats once wrote. But then he never got a chance to read ‘In Praise of Air,’ a poem by Simon Armitage just installed on a building along a busy road at the University of Sheffield, England, and billed as the world’s first bit of air-cleansing verse.”

WORDS Published: 05.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.14.14

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