The Unraveling: Pondering our Chemical Selves in Alexandra Teague’s Genome
Everything I know about the human genome I learned in my high school biology class and from the weirdly …
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STEM and LEAF meets Harriet
Just a note that STEM and LEAF was called out in Poetry Magazine’s Harriet Blog, way back in 2014, …
You Sing I Listen: Technology’s Collateral Damage and Sense of Place in Mary Oliver’s Poetry
Perhaps someday we may acknowledge that the most egregious damage inflicted by this technological age is the increased …
Sense Perception of Place in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s “A Context of a Wave”
There are poems that evoke a “sense of place”. A poem can draw from a place an essence; wringing meaning …
Reading Poetry: Einstein’s Relativity
One of the multiple ways of bridging poetry and STEM is to read science texts as if they were poetry. …
Of Fruit Flies and Cherry Stems: Kimiko Hahn’s Engagement with the Science of Memory
The poems in Kimiko Hahn ‘s Brain Fever (2014) are the result of the poet’s engagement with science articles …
5 Questions
Why great? 2. Why a figure? 3. Where is the rain? 4. Who was on fire? 5.What now? …
Science of Arthur Sze’s “Ten Thousand to One”
Ten Thousand to One by Arthur Sze is another one of those poems I come back to over and over, …
The Darwin Sonnets: Writing thru the Voyage of the Beagle
I’ve started a new writing project, a series of sonnets inspired by Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle. I am not …
Love a Fortress: The Paper Nautilus and Logarithmic Structure in Marianne Moore’s Poetry
Marianne Moore’s poetry is filled with naturalist observations; of glaciers, chameleons, whales, elephants, lions, fish, peacocks, snails, and in the …
