Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/Three-medical-students-nurture-the-soul-through-poetry Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Three Harvard medical students, who chose to take time out from their hectic schedules to focus on reading poetry and honing their own writing skills, credit poetry with "feeding the soul," "doing justice" to hard realities that prose couldn’t adequately address and giving them perspective on the parallels between medicine and writing.