Poetry and science go way back: Over the centuries, they have occasionally gotten together, like old friends who find themselves in the same city and meet up for tea, only to head home the next day and lose touch again. Much has changed since the two disciplines’ earlier encounters—which resulted, for instance, in late-1700s scientific treatises written in poetic form. Poets who investigate scientific concepts, and scientists tempted by verse, are now crafting work that invites readers into scientific cultures and bodies of knowledge even as it raises questions about the research enterprise. The six books reviewed in this issue—five poetry collections and one book of essays—are a sample of recent work in poetry that engages with scientific and mathematical constructs. At the end of the section, we present new poems from four poets whose work is informed by science.
Poetry in the Wild: Emily Grosholz reviews Approaching Ice, by Elizabeth Bradfield, and Darwin: A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel.
Quantum Metaphors: Robin Chapman reviews Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, by Alice Major.
Querying Science: Rick Mullin reviews Hypotheticals, by Leigh Kotsilidis.
Songs of Scientists: Sarah Glaz reviews The Scientific Method, by Mary Alexandra Agner.
A Useful Pageant: Anna Lena Phillips reviews Between Page and Screen, by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse.
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.
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
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!).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Literature provides a vital way of examining science from the outside: "Science is moving ahead at such an extraordinary rate that all sorts of moral and ethical dilemmas are being generated by the discoveries being made. As human beings we need to think about them and talk about them and understand them. And literature is a great arena in which to do that." Ultimately if writers don't engage with some of the scientific advances that are being made, that are changing our lives radically, then they're in danger of becoming irrelevant."
Two major artistic talents - a poet and an electronic music pioneer - join forces tomorrow for a new solar system-inspired ‘sound journey’ called Edge Katrina Porteous, the poet, and Peter Zinovieff, who helped to give Pink Floyd, David Bowie and others their distinctive sound, will give the inaugural performance of Edge in Centre for Life planetarium in Newcastle.
Part of the British Science Festival, which starts in the city today, Edge represents an exhilarating marriage of art and science.
Scientists are often excellent writers, says Literature Wales boss Lleucu Siencyn, who explores the common ground between art and science Is E=MC2 the best poem never written?
The ability to condense the very essence of existence to a few letters must surely be the work of a poetic genius as well as mathematical.
And why separate the two disciplines?
Science and art have been artificially divided for far too long, particularly within our education system. Scientists are often excellent writers.
They can convey complicated structures in simple sentences.
No unwanted adjectives or detailed descriptions of scenery – the type of writing Elmore Leonard would have been proud to produce.
Similarly, the way you consider a poem’s meaning, looking carefully at it from all angles, opening your mind to endless possibilities, can be useful practice for a mathematical problem.
The common ground between science and art is made up of creativity and curiosity.
This week, Professor Dai Smith’s review into arts in education was published, with several key recommendations.
At the core is the vital importance of embedding creativity across the disciplines within the education sector.
Writers can help raise literacy standards, but how about using them to help numeracy, particularly when playing equation games with cynghanedd and sonnets?
Arts and science have not always been as differentiated.
The Golden Age of Discovery inspired some of the greatest literature ever written. his year, the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, has joined some of the best poets in the UK, as writers in residence at science museums at Cambridge University, a project funded by the Arts Council of England ( www.thresholds.co.uk ).
Archaeopteryx
http://www.sciencecodex.com/poetry_is_like_music_to_the_mind_scient... Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.
Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities. No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.
In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .
When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.
In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.
Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."
It has been always a great pleasure interchanging thoughts with you and I have found you to be very unique with deep understanding character to many human issues not only art and science. You certainly, have a personal touch when writing so you do appreciate poems and it is one of your reason creating this group. So here I am and hope members will enjoy some of my poems.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112971504/effects-of-poetry-o... This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Poetry.
Researchers at the University of Exeter have been bridging the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose. The team used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to visual how the brain activates certain regions to process various activities.
Before this study, no one had specifically examined the brain’s differing responses to poetry and prose. The results, published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, revealed activity within a “reading network” of brain regions that were activated in response to any written material.
The team also found that emotionally charged writing activated areas of the brain which are known to respond to music. Predominantly on the right side, these regions had previously been shown to give rise to the “shivers down the spine” feeling caused by an emotional response to music.
The researchers found that when study participants read one of their favorite passages of poetry, regions of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than “reading areas.” This suggests that reading a favorite passage is like a recollection.
When the team specifically compared poetry to prose, they found evidence that poetry activates brain regions associated with introspection – such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, led the interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of psychology and English. They recruited 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English, then scanned their brain activity. These scans were compared when reading literal prose – such as an excerpt from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, and their favorite poetry.
According to Zeman, “Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”
Source: April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
Scientists at the University of Exeter used fMRI imaging to see how participants’ brains responded to poetry and prose. The “reading network” brain areas were activated in response to any written material but more emotionally charged writing aroused several regions of the brain. These regions are predominantly in the right side and had previously been shown to produce the “shivers down the spine” emotional reaction to music. Also, when volunteers read a favorite passage of poetry, the areas of the brain linked to memory were activated more strongly than “reading areas,” showing that reading a favorite passage is a kind of like having a recollection. Also poetry, not prose, was found to activate areas of the brain associated with introspection. Researchers said this is “all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131009125959.htm Poetry Is Like Music to the Mind, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.
Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities.
No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.
In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .
When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.
In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.
Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."
Inside a mermaid's purse A poetic intersection between life and science, art and photography.
A Poem based on University of Washington Biology Professor Adam Summers's work in animal sciences ....
Little Skate
Leucoraja erinacea
Littlest of little skates, just barely hatched! You can still see the remnants
of my yellow egg sac.
And my tail's a little longer than my whole body
(I'll grow into it more eventually).
And the tiny whiplash at my very tail-tip (that inside my egg case I used to thrash)
I'll keep for just a few days more.
In warmer days, I'll move toward shore: Summer Skate you might call me.
Check me out! Already sensing with ampullae of Lorenzini!
An attempt to bridge computer code with classical poetics that is only as rich as your imagination
The bridge that connects computers and poetry is how both manipulate memory. A skilful poet arranges words to trigger continents buried deep beneath the ocean of collective consciousness. A good computer programmer makes efficient use of machine memory, and its physical architecture. Drawing on his own background as one of India’s finest novelists, Vikram Chandra begins by asking, “Can computer code be artistic?”
Across the world a fresh mingling of the arts and sciences is unfolding, that harks back to pre-Renaissance alchemy in Europe. It is a natural response to the unidimensional pursuit of specialisation into which the 20th century had thrown headlong some of its best minds. From the standpoint of Indian philosophy, Chandra has produced an interdisciplinary book that attempts to bridge the world of computer code with classical poetics of the subcontinent. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/blink/art-of-coding/ar...
The Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 10th-12th April 2014 University of Surrey The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April. Conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: £25 waged / £10 unwaged).
Please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation.
Information on local hotels, and on travel to the University of Surrey, is available on the conference website: http://tinyurl.com/pp6ubz5.
If you have any questions please contact Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk)
University of Calgary, Josh Literary Society of Canada convened a three-day seminar in July 2009, inviting world leading scientists to explore and discuss one of the greats of Urdu poetry under the banner of “A Conjugation of Art and Science”. http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?newsid=255622&catname=...
On the eve of his 450th birthday, explore how science influenced Shakespeare
Poet. Playwright. Scientist? William Shakespeare is known for being many things - but never a scientist.
This week, you can discover how the Bard's imagination was fired by an insatiable curiosity for the natural world, from cosmology to medicine to psychology. Shakespeare's small grammatical twists unleash a tempest in the brain
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New Scientist magazine - 19 April 2014 http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2965?
Writing is on the wall for air pollution thanks to air-cleansing poem The writing is on the wall for smog as the University of Sheffield unveils the world’s first air-cleansing poem, a new work by award-winning writer Simon Armitage.
Simon, Professor of Poetry at the University, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Science Professor Tony Ryan, have collaborated to create a catalytic poem called In Praise of Air – printed on material containing a formula invented at the University which is capable of purifying its surroundings.
This cheap technology could also be applied to billboards and advertisements alongside congested roads to cut pollution.
Professor Ryan, who came up with the idea of using treated materials to cleanse the air, said: “This is a fun collaboration between science and the arts to highlight a very serious issue of poor air quality in our towns and cities.
“The science behind this is an additive which delivers a real environmental benefit that could actually help cut disease and save lives.
“This poem alone will eradicate the nitrogen oxide pollution created by about 20 cars every day.”
He added: “If every banner, flag or advertising poster in the country did this, we’d have much better air quality. It would add less than £100 to the cost of a poster and would turn advertisements into catalysts in more ways than one. The countless thousands of poster sites that are selling us cars beside our roads could be cleaning up emissions at the same time.”
The 10m x 20m piece of material which the poem is printed on is coated with microscopic pollution-eating particles of titanium dioxide which use sunlight and oxygen to react with nitrogen oxide pollutants and purify the air. The poem will be on display on the side of the University’s Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, for one year and its unveiling also marks the launch of this year’s Sheffield Lyric Festival which takes place between 14-17 May 2014 at the University’s Firth Hall. http://facultyofscience.shef.ac.uk/writing-is-on-the-wall-for-air-p...
Poet and Paleontologist – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The German lawyer, author, poet, politician and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749-1832) was also a mining engineer and quite interested in geology and paleontology.
In the year 1775, Goethe, already a highly regarded author, was invited to the court of Duke Carl August in the city of Weimar, where he will remain for the rest of his life. Goethe was an enthusiastic collector of mineralogical, paleontological and geological curiosities and between 1780 to 1832 he collected, exchanged and purchased more than 18.000 rocks, minerals and fossils. The fossils alone comprise 718 specimens, most notable in this collection are 100 fossils found in the quaternary deposits of Weimar. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2014/08/28/p...
Medicine and poetry collide at Art Aloud When going to the doctor, one usually doesn’t expect to hear poetry. One would expect to hear original poetry from local poets even less.
Art Aloud is a spoken word event hosted by the College of Medicine — Tucson’s Medical Humanities program every month at Java City, inside the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Organized by Dr. Ron Grant, a pediatrician and director of Medical Humanities, the event boasts a creative intersection between the sciences and humanities.
“Art Aloud is an opportunity to bring some holistic care and human empathy into a space that, for students, doctors and patients, can sometimes begin to feel a bit sterile,” said Adam Sirgany, a creative writing graduate student who lead last Tuesday’s event in Grant’s absence. “It’s a good opportunity for people to get the other sides of their brain working,” Sirgany added.
Shapiro’s lecture will take place on Dec. 30 at the Poetry Center, Sirgany said.
Cancer specialist balances art and science When Frank Meyskens Jr., the oncologist, writes about cancer in medical journals, his words are scientific.
When Meyskens, the poet, writes about cancer in his second book, his words are figurative.
He calls tears the “lubricant of the soul,” and describes how a breast cancer patient disappears “pound by pound, her hopes an affair of ashes.”
“I’ve entered into the artistic world,” said Meyskens, vice dean for the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. “My creativity before was always in science.”
Last year, Meyskens, 69, published “Believing in Today,” which follows his 2007 collection of poetry, “Aching for Tomorrow.” All proceeds from sales of his books go to a hospital fund that covers non-medical costs, such as transportation after chemotherapy, for cancer patients.
Meyskens wrote his first poem as a medical student at UC San Francisco, where he studied and trained from 1967-1974, as a way to cope with encountering the dying. But once he finished his education, he stopped.
He developed a research interest in melanoma, authored hundreds of research articles and book chapters, and helped found UCI’s cancer center. His poetry remained dormant until 2001 when Meyskens wrote about a young mother who died of a rare form of cancer a week after he met her. That poem opened a flood gate of expression and reflection and starts his first book. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/meyskens-656923-cancer-poem.html
Tropical Wings, a gathering of citizens dedicated to celebrating and sustaining the migratory birds shared between the Upper Midwest and Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, seeks original poetry reflecting on themes related to migratory birds and their remarkable seasonal journeys, the connections between birds and people, the role of birds in the community of life, and the nature of flight. All forms of poetry are welcome. Entries must be received on or before April 24. Awards in youth and adult categories include an opportunity to be featured in a public reading on Friday, May 8, at The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin; a scholarship to be used as partial fee for an art and science Phipps Summer Art Camp class; field guides to the birds; and other prizes to be announced.
As part of an annual astro poetry contest, 180 young poets sent poems to Reno, sharing their vision of the cosmos. Poems were judged in three divisions: kindergarten through second grade; third through sixth grade; and seventh through 12th grade; by volunteer judges from Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada.The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum hosted an award ceremony for the contest on April 25, coinciding with Astronomy Day and National Poetry Month.
Physics, atom bombs, poetry Scientists -- physicists in particular -- achieved a new kind of celebrity after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. “A few scientists were so confident of science’s supremacy that they openly relegated the arts to the past,” writes Peter Middleton early in his new book, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (University of Chicago Press). In his book, Middleton examines how poets viewed and navigated their own role in a society as science rocketed into cultural dominance after World War II.
Middleton is a professor of English at the University of Southampton, in England. He is the author of three scholarly books and a collection of poetry entitled Aftermath, and he is co-editor of the book Teaching Modernist Poetry. Middleton responded via email to questions about Physics Envy.
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://roaldhoffmann.com/poetry-books
Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann (Nobel 1981 chemistry)
Apr 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3077
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=2716
Apr 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/science-and-poetry
Science and Poetry
Anna Lena Phillips
Poetry and science go way back: Over the centuries, they have occasionally gotten together, like old friends who find themselves in the same city and meet up for tea, only to head home the next day and lose touch again. Much has changed since the two disciplines’ earlier encounters—which resulted, for instance, in late-1700s scientific treatises written in poetic form. Poets who investigate scientific concepts, and scientists tempted by verse, are now crafting work that invites readers into scientific cultures and bodies of knowledge even as it raises questions about the research enterprise. The six books reviewed in this issue—five poetry collections and one book of essays—are a sample of recent work in poetry that engages with scientific and mathematical constructs. At the end of the section, we present new poems from four poets whose work is informed by science.
Poetry in the Wild: Emily Grosholz reviews Approaching Ice, by Elizabeth Bradfield, and Darwin: A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel.
Quantum Metaphors: Robin Chapman reviews Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, by Alice Major.
Querying Science: Rick Mullin reviews Hypotheticals, by Leigh Kotsilidis.
Songs of Scientists: Sarah Glaz reviews The Scientific Method, by Mary Alexandra Agner.
A Useful Pageant: Anna Lena Phillips reviews Between Page and Screen, by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse.
Apr 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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.
Apr 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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
Apr 12, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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).
Apr 13, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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.
Apr 13, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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.
Apr 20, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://aileenpenner.com/art-science
The Poetry of Science, the Science of Poetry
May 1, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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.
May 7, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.kazmaslanka.com/polyaesthetics.pdf
May 30, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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.
May 30, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_23407038/bonny...
Science fiction fuels art at the Peninsula Museum of Art
Jun 8, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/24/literary-arts-discarded-b...
Literary arts: Discarded books become art in UW Summer Youth Programs class
Jul 26, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Literature provides a vital way of examining science from the outside: "Science is moving ahead at such an extraordinary rate that all sorts of moral and ethical dilemmas are being generated by the discoveries being made. As human beings we need to think about them and talk about them and understand them. And literature is a great arena in which to do that." Ultimately if writers don't engage with some of the scientific advances that are being made, that are changing our lives radically, then they're in danger of becoming irrelevant."
Sep 4, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/arts/poet-composer-inspired-sol...
Poet and composer inspired by the solar system
7 Sep 2013 08:47
Two major artistic talents - a poet and an electronic music pioneer - join forces tomorrow for a new solar system-inspired ‘sound journey’ called Edge
Katrina Porteous, the poet, and Peter Zinovieff, who helped to give Pink Floyd, David Bowie and others their distinctive sound, will give the inaugural performance of Edge in Centre for Life planetarium in Newcastle.
Part of the British Science Festival, which starts in the city today, Edge represents an exhilarating marriage of art and science.
Sep 8, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/lleucu-sienc...
When two words collide
5 Oct 2013 06:30
Scientists are often excellent writers, says Literature Wales boss Lleucu Siencyn, who explores the common ground between art and science
Is E=MC2 the best poem never written?
The ability to condense the very essence of existence to a few letters must surely be the work of a poetic genius as well as mathematical.
And why separate the two disciplines?
Science and art have been artificially divided for far too long, particularly within our education system.
Scientists are often excellent writers.
They can convey complicated structures in simple sentences.
No unwanted adjectives or detailed descriptions of scenery – the type of writing Elmore Leonard would have been proud to produce.
Similarly, the way you consider a poem’s meaning, looking carefully at it from all angles, opening your mind to endless possibilities, can be useful practice for a mathematical problem.
The common ground between science and art is made up of creativity and curiosity.
This week, Professor Dai Smith’s review into arts in education was published, with several key recommendations.
At the core is the vital importance of embedding creativity across the disciplines within the education sector.
Writers can help raise literacy standards, but how about using them to help numeracy, particularly when playing equation games with cynghanedd and sonnets?
Arts and science have not always been as differentiated.
The Golden Age of Discovery inspired some of the greatest literature ever written.
his year, the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, has joined some of the best poets in the UK, as writers in residence at science museums at Cambridge University, a project funded by the Arts Council of England ( www.thresholds.co.uk ).
Archaeopteryx
The first bird in the world
stilled in stony silence behind glass.
Flight feathers, wishbone, that perching foot,
found in the limestone of a salt lagoon, a mould
from the Jurassic, print, exactitude,
a frozen moment in Earth’s book of stone,
the transition between dinosaur and bird,
a memory of wing-feathers, skull and bones,
like the impression left by a magpie on the lawn,
bump-landing, lift-off, touch and go,
its wing-beats leaving angels in the snow
an icy hour before dawn.
First bird,
thence every warbler, song-thrush, wren,
the blackbird in the ash, five notes repeating
again, again, again.
Oct 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.sciencecodex.com/poetry_is_like_music_to_the_mind_scient...
Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.
Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities. No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.
In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .
When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.
In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.
Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."
Source: University of Exeter
Oct 10, 2013
Mona Youssef
Dear Krishna,
It has been always a great pleasure interchanging thoughts with you and I have found you to be very unique with deep understanding character to many human issues not only art and science. You certainly, have a personal touch when writing so you do appreciate poems and it is one of your reason creating this group. So here I am and hope members will enjoy some of my poems.
http://youtu.be/D6YkDKHmhCo
Oct 12, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112971504/effects-of-poetry-o...
This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Poetry.
Researchers at the University of Exeter have been bridging the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose. The team used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to visual how the brain activates certain regions to process various activities.
Before this study, no one had specifically examined the brain’s differing responses to poetry and prose. The results, published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, revealed activity within a “reading network” of brain regions that were activated in response to any written material.
The team also found that emotionally charged writing activated areas of the brain which are known to respond to music. Predominantly on the right side, these regions had previously been shown to give rise to the “shivers down the spine” feeling caused by an emotional response to music.
The researchers found that when study participants read one of their favorite passages of poetry, regions of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than “reading areas.” This suggests that reading a favorite passage is like a recollection.
When the team specifically compared poetry to prose, they found evidence that poetry activates brain regions associated with introspection – such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, led the interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of psychology and English. They recruited 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English, then scanned their brain activity. These scans were compared when reading literal prose – such as an excerpt from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, and their favorite poetry.
According to Zeman, “Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”
Source: April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
Oct 12, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/science_2/1112972973/poetry-impa...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/science_2/1112972973/poetry-impa...
How Does Your Brain Process Poetry?
October 11, 2013
Scientists at the University of Exeter used fMRI imaging to see how participants’ brains responded to poetry and prose. The “reading network” brain areas were activated in response to any written material but more emotionally charged writing aroused several regions of the brain. These regions are predominantly in the right side and had previously been shown to produce the “shivers down the spine” emotional reaction to music. Also, when volunteers read a favorite passage of poetry, the areas of the brain linked to memory were activated more strongly than “reading areas,” showing that reading a favorite passage is a kind of like having a recollection. Also poetry, not prose, was found to activate areas of the brain associated with introspection. Researchers said this is “all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art.”
Oct 12, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131009125959.htm
Poetry Is Like Music to the Mind, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.
Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities.
No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.
In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a "reading network" of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found that more emotionally charged writing aroused several of the regions in the brain which respond to music. These areas, predominantly on the right side of the brain, had previously been shown as to give rise to the "shivers down the spine" caused by an emotional reaction to music. .
When volunteers read one of their favourite passages of poetry, the team found that areas of the brain associated with memory were stimulated more strongly than 'reading areas', indicating that reading a favourite passage is a kind of recollection.
In a specific comparison between poetry and prose, the team found evidence that poetry activates brain areas, such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes, which have been linked to introspection.
Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist from the University of Exeter Medical School, worked with colleagues across Psychology and English to carry out the study on 13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English. Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well as their favourite poetry.
Professor Zeman said: "Some people say it is impossible to reconcile science and art, but new brain imaging technology means we are now seeing a growing body of evidence about how the brain responds to the experience of art. This was a preliminary study, but it is all part of work that is helping us to make psychological, biological, anatomical sense of art."
Oct 16, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Inside a mermaid's purse
A poetic intersection between life and science, art and photography.
A Poem based on University of Washington Biology Professor Adam Summers's work in animal sciences ....
Little Skate
Leucoraja erinacea
Littlest of little skates, just barely hatched!
You can still see the remnants
of my yellow egg sac.
And my tail's a little longer
than my whole body
(I'll grow into it more eventually).
And the tiny whiplash at my very tail-tip
(that inside my egg case I used to thrash)
I'll keep for just a few days more.
In warmer days, I'll move toward shore:
Summer Skate you might call me.
Check me out! Already sensing
with ampullae of Lorenzini!
~ Sierra Nelson.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/dec/05/inside...
Dec 6, 2013
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116170/jane-austen-game-theorist...
Can science explain literature perfectly?
Jan 25, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Art of coding
An attempt to bridge computer code with classical poetics that is only as rich as your imagination
The bridge that connects computers and poetry is how both manipulate memory. A skilful poet arranges words to trigger continents buried deep beneath the ocean of collective consciousness. A good computer programmer makes efficient use of machine memory, and its physical architecture. Drawing on his own background as one of India’s finest novelists, Vikram Chandra begins by asking, “Can computer code be artistic?”
Across the world a fresh mingling of the arts and sciences is unfolding, that harks back to pre-Renaissance alchemy in Europe. It is a natural response to the unidimensional pursuit of specialisation into which the 20th century had thrown headlong some of its best minds. From the standpoint of Indian philosophy, Chandra has produced an interdisciplinary book that attempts to bridge the world of computer code with classical poetics of the subcontinent.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/blink/art-of-coding/ar...
Feb 1, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html
Feb 4, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 10th-12th April 2014 University of Surrey The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April.
Conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: £25 waged / £10 unwaged).
Please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation.
Information on local hotels, and on travel to the University of Surrey, is available on the conference website: http://tinyurl.com/pp6ubz5.
If you have any questions please contact Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk)
Mar 9, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
University of Calgary, Josh Literary Society of Canada convened a three-day seminar in July 2009, inviting world leading scientists to explore and discuss one of the greats of Urdu poetry under the banner of “A Conjugation of Art and Science”.
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?newsid=255622&catname=...
Art and Science go hand in hand
Mar 16, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
g l a c i e r from Irene Owsley on Vimeo.
Apr 11, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Shakespeare's surprising legacy
On the eve of his 450th birthday, explore how science influenced Shakespeare
Poet. Playwright. Scientist? William Shakespeare is known for being many things - but never a scientist.
This week, you can discover how the Bard's imagination was fired by an insatiable curiosity for the natural world, from cosmology to medicine to psychology.
Shakespeare's small grammatical twists unleash a tempest in the brain
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New Scientist magazine - 19 April 2014
http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2965?
Apr 17, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Apr 29, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Apr 29, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Writing is on the wall for air pollution thanks to air-cleansing poem
The writing is on the wall for smog as the University of Sheffield unveils the world’s first air-cleansing poem, a new work by award-winning writer Simon Armitage.
Simon, Professor of Poetry at the University, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Science Professor Tony Ryan, have collaborated to create a catalytic poem called In Praise of Air – printed on material containing a formula invented at the University which is capable of purifying its surroundings.
This cheap technology could also be applied to billboards and advertisements alongside congested roads to cut pollution.
Professor Ryan, who came up with the idea of using treated materials to cleanse the air, said: “This is a fun collaboration between science and the arts to highlight a very serious issue of poor air quality in our towns and cities.
“The science behind this is an additive which delivers a real environmental benefit that could actually help cut disease and save lives.
“This poem alone will eradicate the nitrogen oxide pollution created by about 20 cars every day.”
He added: “If every banner, flag or advertising poster in the country did this, we’d have much better air quality. It would add less than £100 to the cost of a poster and would turn advertisements into catalysts in more ways than one. The countless thousands of poster sites that are selling us cars beside our roads could be cleaning up emissions at the same time.”
The 10m x 20m piece of material which the poem is printed on is coated with microscopic pollution-eating particles of titanium dioxide which use sunlight and oxygen to react with nitrogen oxide pollutants and purify the air.
The poem will be on display on the side of the University’s Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, for one year and its unveiling also marks the launch of this year’s Sheffield Lyric Festival which takes place between 14-17 May 2014 at the University’s Firth Hall.
http://facultyofscience.shef.ac.uk/writing-is-on-the-wall-for-air-p...
May 16, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
For Judith Baumel, science and poetry are inextricably linked:
In the morning he told her
she was beautiful.
She considered Einstein’s paradox:
If I hold a mirror in front of myself
arm’s length away
and run at nearly the speed of light
will I be able to see myself?
http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Science-and-art-blend-in-BRIO-win...
Aug 19, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Poet and Paleontologist – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The German lawyer, author, poet, politician and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749-1832) was also a mining engineer and quite interested in geology and paleontology.
In the year 1775, Goethe, already a highly regarded author, was invited to the court of Duke Carl August in the city of Weimar, where he will remain for the rest of his life. Goethe was an enthusiastic collector of mineralogical, paleontological and geological curiosities and between 1780 to 1832 he collected, exchanged and purchased more than 18.000 rocks, minerals and fossils. The fossils alone comprise 718 specimens, most notable in this collection are 100 fossils found in the quaternary deposits of Weimar.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2014/08/28/p...
Aug 30, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Female voices in science - a poem
Sep 19, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The worlds of science and art don’t often mix but pupils at one of Camden’s top schools have found a way to merge the two by writing scientific Haiku poems for a new book
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/worlds_of_science_and_art_collide_in_...
Nov 16, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Medicine and poetry collide at Art Aloud
When going to the doctor, one usually doesn’t expect to hear poetry. One would expect to hear original poetry from local poets even less.
Art Aloud is a spoken word event hosted by the College of Medicine — Tucson’s Medical Humanities program every month at Java City, inside the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Organized by Dr. Ron Grant, a pediatrician and director of Medical Humanities, the event boasts a creative intersection between the sciences and humanities.
“Art Aloud is an opportunity to bring some holistic care and human empathy into a space that, for students, doctors and patients, can sometimes begin to feel a bit sterile,” said Adam Sirgany, a creative writing graduate student who lead last Tuesday’s event in Grant’s absence.
“It’s a good opportunity for people to get the other sides of their brain working,” Sirgany added.
Shapiro’s lecture will take place on Dec. 30 at the Poetry Center, Sirgany said.
The next Art Aloud event will be held on Dec. 16, from noon to 1 p.m., at Java City inside of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona Medical Cente
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/12/medicine-and-poetry-...
Dec 4, 2014
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Science Fuels the Writing, and Faith, of a Nicaraguan Poet
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/world/americas/science-fuels-writ...
Jan 4, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Mar 8, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Poem on Ebola
Ebola: A Poem for the Living (English) from United Methodist Communications on Vimeo.
Mar 14, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Cancer specialist balances art and science
When Frank Meyskens Jr., the oncologist, writes about cancer in medical journals, his words are scientific.
When Meyskens, the poet, writes about cancer in his second book, his words are figurative.
He calls tears the “lubricant of the soul,” and describes how a breast cancer patient disappears “pound by pound, her hopes an affair of ashes.”
“I’ve entered into the artistic world,” said Meyskens, vice dean for the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. “My creativity before was always in science.”
Last year, Meyskens, 69, published “Believing in Today,” which follows his 2007 collection of poetry, “Aching for Tomorrow.” All proceeds from sales of his books go to a hospital fund that covers non-medical costs, such as transportation after chemotherapy, for cancer patients.
Meyskens wrote his first poem as a medical student at UC San Francisco, where he studied and trained from 1967-1974, as a way to cope with encountering the dying. But once he finished his education, he stopped.
He developed a research interest in melanoma, authored hundreds of research articles and book chapters, and helped found UCI’s cancer center.
His poetry remained dormant until 2001 when Meyskens wrote about a young mother who died of a rare form of cancer a week after he met her. That poem opened a flood gate of expression and reflection and starts his first book.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/meyskens-656923-cancer-poem.html
Apr 7, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The month of April (2015) has been designated as The International Poetry month. Let us celebrate this by writing more poems.
Apr 9, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Tropical Wings, a gathering of citizens dedicated to celebrating and sustaining the migratory birds shared between the Upper Midwest and Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, seeks original poetry reflecting on themes related to migratory birds and their remarkable seasonal journeys, the connections between birds and people, the role of birds in the community of life, and the nature of flight. All forms of poetry are welcome. Entries must be received on or before April 24. Awards in youth and adult categories include an opportunity to be featured in a public reading on Friday, May 8, at The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin; a scholarship to be used as partial fee for an art and science Phipps Summer Art Camp class; field guides to the birds; and other prizes to be announced.
http://www.stcroix360.com/2015/04/group-seeks-poems-for-migratory-b...
Apr 23, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Star Guide: Astro poetry combines art and science
As part of an annual astro poetry contest, 180 young poets sent poems to Reno, sharing their vision of the cosmos. Poems were judged in three divisions: kindergarten through second grade; third through sixth grade; and seventh through 12th grade; by volunteer judges from Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada.The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum hosted an award ceremony for the contest on April 25, coinciding with Astronomy Day and National Poetry Month.
http://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/2015/05/06/star-guide-astro-...
May 7, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The poetry of science:
http://www.bluestreakscience.com/2/
Science for poets was a course offered to the students of Srishti Schoool of Art, Design and Technology.
http://artscienceblr.org/?p=153
Jul 3, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Cleaning Air with Poetry: Surprising Uses of a Titanium Dioxide Catalyst
http://thebrainbank.scienceblog.com/2015/12/27/cleaning-air-with-po...
Dec 29, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Physics, atom bombs, poetry
Scientists -- physicists in particular -- achieved a new kind of celebrity after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. “A few scientists were so confident of science’s supremacy that they openly relegated the arts to the past,” writes Peter Middleton early in his new book, Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (University of Chicago Press). In his book, Middleton examines how poets viewed and navigated their own role in a society as science rocketed into cultural dominance after World War II.
Middleton is a professor of English at the University of Southampton, in England. He is the author of three scholarly books and a collection of poetry entitled Aftermath, and he is co-editor of the book Teaching Modernist Poetry. Middleton responded via email to questions about Physics Envy.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/08/author-discusses-phy...
Jan 9, 2016
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
The Poetry of Science
One in an occasional series of poems about, or inspired by, science
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-poetry-of-scienc...
http://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/
Mar 26, 2016
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Math Poetry Month (April):
How to Celebrate Math Poetry Month
Intersections—Poetry with Mathematics
The Poetry of Calculus (The Calculus of Poetry?)
Measure Yourself by the Standard of the Capybara
You Were on the Moon: Astropoetry from Tychogirl
Setting Mathematics in Verse
In Praise of Fractals and Poetry
Quiz: Can You Tell Mathematics from Poetry?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/an-italian-poem-...
Apr 13, 2016