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About Place Journal Reading: Portland Oregon, March 29, 2019

February 15, 2019

I am excited to report that my poem The Sky is All the Heaven She will Every Know was published …

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The Unraveling: Pondering our Chemical Selves in Alexandra Teague’s Genome

September 22, 2018

  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

July 21, 2018

  Just a note that STEM and LEAF was called out in Poetry Magazine’s Harriet Blog, way back in 2014, …

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You Sing I Listen: Technology’s Collateral Damage and Sense of Place in Mary Oliver’s Poetry

February 24, 2018

    Perhaps someday we may acknowledge that  the most egregious  damage inflicted by this technological age is the increased …

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Sense Perception of Place in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s “A Context of a Wave”

July 31, 2017

There are poems that evoke a “sense of place”. A poem can draw from a place an essence; wringing meaning …

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Reading Poetry: Einstein’s Relativity

June 17, 2017

One of the multiple ways of bridging poetry and STEM is to read science texts as if they were poetry. …

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Of Fruit Flies and Cherry Stems: Kimiko Hahn’s Engagement with the Science of Memory

March 12, 2017

   The poems in  Kimiko Hahn ‘s   Brain Fever (2014)  are the result of the poet’s engagement with science articles …

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5 Questions

December 11, 2016

Why great? 2. Why a figure? 3. Where is the rain? 4. Who was on fire?    5.What now?   …

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Science of Arthur Sze’s “Ten Thousand to One”

November 11, 2016

Ten Thousand to One by Arthur Sze is another one of those poems I come back to over and over, …

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The Darwin Sonnets: Writing thru the Voyage of the Beagle

October 22, 2016

I’ve started a new writing project, a series of sonnets inspired by Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle. I am not …

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