David Douglas and Romancing the Natural World
“Here lies Master David Douglas – an indefatigable traveler. He was sent out by the Royal Horticultural Society of London …
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How to Observe: Introduction
“Look in the Sky in Every Direction above 14 Degrees” NASA Clouds Protocol Observe * – Genevieve Manset 1: to conform one’s …
My Year of Citizen Science
Today I am beginning my year of Citizen Science. After five months of pandemic and new stay at home orders, …
About Place Journal Reading: Portland Oregon, March 29, 2019
I am excited to report that my poem The Sky is All the Heaven She will Every Know was published …
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 …
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 …
STEM & Leaf 