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Science is the poetry of reality - Dawkins

How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this
brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms
as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to
give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the
beauty of the stars - mere globs of atoms. Nothing is "mere".
I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.
But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches
my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch
one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a
part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star,
as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of
Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point
when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or
the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery
to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth
than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the
present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of
Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense
spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
-- Richard P. Feynman, a footnote in "Six Easy Pieces"

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Words of poet-naturalist René-Richard Castel: “A poet must not aim to teach and advance a science as much as to show its advantages and make it loved.”

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 8, 2013 at 9:13am: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_23407038/bonny...
Science fiction fuels art at the Peninsula Museum of Art

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 30, 2013 at 8:42am: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/poetry-in-the-wild
If you are a scientifically trained poetry lover who has always wanted to travel to the polar regions or the tropics, or a lover of poetry who would like to venture into the history of science, you can fly away to those distant reaches on the pages of these two books. Elizabeth Bradfield, author of the poetry collection Approaching Ice, has worked as a naturalist in Alaska and the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Ruth Padel, author of Darwin: A Life in Poems, has visited tiger forests in China and Russia, as well as tropical and subtropical forests in Brazil, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos and Sumatra. She is, moreover, the granddaughter of Darwin’s granddaughter Nora Barlow, from whom she first heard about the complexities of the marriage of Charles and Emma Darwin.

Bradfield’s Approaching Ice is a miscellany of poems and annotated texts that makes use of the writings of two dozen Arctic and Antarctic explorers. The book unfolds in roughly chronological order, from John Cleves Symmes and James Weddell, who went north around 1820, through Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton and Richard E. Byrd in the early 20th century, to Lynne Cox, who, in the late 20th century, swam the Strait of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 30, 2013 at 6:01am: http://www.kazmaslanka.com/polyaesthetics.pdf

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 7, 2013 at 4:42am: A book by Ayleen on science and poetry. This was aimed to find poetry apt to facilitate science teaching. This is a very much different task with respect to writing poetry with some science reference inside. It is required a special capability to select the correct contents and writing aiming to explain to the readers the conceptual knots of the science topic, being amusing as much as possible.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 1, 2013 at 5:47am: http://aileenpenner.com/art-science

The Poetry of Science, the Science of Poetry

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 20, 2013 at 6:23am: http://aileenpenner.com/art-science
The Poetry of Science, the Science of Poetry - Vol 1
What happens when you put five poets, four scientists and one landscape architect together and ask them to collaborate? After an intense month of writing and editing, one amazing night of poetry and discussion.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 13, 2013 at 6:04am: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/66a9dd20ce854f9b9c2b3bebbe573...
PORTALES, New Mexico — Science fiction writer Joe Haldeman is scheduled to headline an Eastern New Mexico University event focusing on the art of science fiction literature.

The author of the 1974 space travel classic, "The Forever War," is slated Thursday to give a reading on campus and begin the two-day 37th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship.

The lectureship honors late ENMU professor and science fiction pioneer, Jack Williamson.

The event continues Friday with readings from science fiction authors from across New Mexico. Authors and guests also will discuss topics in science fiction and fantasy in Golden Library's Special Collection.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 13, 2013 at 5:55am: Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman at Harvard is also a poet -a scientific article in verse in (I think) the American Journal of Science circa 1970-71. Don't remember the topic, but I think it was geochemistry.

You might also want to look at the Web site lablit.com, which discusses fiction with scientific settings and scientists as characters, often by scientists. They have a section for science related poetry.

Also, look on the Poetry Foundation Web site, where I readily found one of my favorite science poems: "A Man Said to the Universe," by Stephen Crane (yes, he of The Red Badge of Courage fame!).

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173305

Also, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell wrote poetry about student life in Cambridge, and in passing, about science.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-clerk-maxwell

Doctors (William Car;os Williams) are not included here or those who studied medicine and dropped out (Gertrude Stein, who also spent a summer during med school at the Marine Biological Laboratory's Embryology Course).

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 12, 2013 at 5:54am: Venkata Rayadu Posina: The main theme of my talk every time I gave a lab talk on conscious experience in Vision Center Laboratory at Salk. I'm not sure if they sound poetic / scientific anymore, but here's the link to the collection

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwI5wvYXZ9I1aDRNZXdfX21USkU/edit

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 6, 2013 at 7:25am: We are starting to publish our newspaper, The Munich Eye, on April 16. The newspaper will be sold across Germany, and the articles will also be available online. I would be happy to create a column devoted to "Science Poetry" with the idea of publishing one poem per week. We can not , yet, pay for the poems, but you would have your work published, and it would serve to build your cv. If you are interested, please let me know at karl.gruber@themunicheye.com.