Science & Poetry: Take Four

Three items weaving together science and poetry:

1) An interview with poet Sarah Henning at The Rappahannock Review. Sarah started her college career as a Genetics major, and is currently a doctoral student in English and Creative Writing at the University of South Dakota. In this interview she discusses how she uses animal physiology, astrophysics, and neurochemistry in her poetry.

2) Slipstream is currently reading for Issue #35, which will be published in 2015. They seek poetry that explores the theme "elements." Creative interpretations are welcome. Submit up to five (5) poems in one document file only. They also are seeking artwork for the issue. Refer to their submission guidelines on their web site (www.slipstreampress.org). Deadline May 1st.

3) Incessant Pipe is sponsoring a poetry contest with the theme of Venus. It will be judged by Dara Wier. No entrance fee, and the winner receives $250. Deadline April 15th.

4) Performance poet Harry Baker offers a poem about prime numbers for TedTalks. 

We Who Are About to Click on the Link to Another Blog

And just in case we haven't had enough sciency-nerdy stuff recently on this blog, I just discovered the blog We Who Are About to Die, and in scrolling through the posts there, saw Jeffrey Skinner's "The Periodic Table of Poetic Elements."

Leave this blog now and go look. You know you want to.

(Also, they've got a wonderfully circuitous essay by Dara Wier on "How a Poem is Like a Machine." Go! What are you waiting for?!)