Thought this worth sharing...especially considering the growing number of poems I see using text language on poetry sites...
"Is the proliferation of texting among young people actually bringing them closer to poetry? Britain's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy thinks that, in some ways, it is. Last week, she told the British newspaper The Guardian that there are parallels between poetry and texting."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/carol-ann-duffy-texting_b_955795.html