Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

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"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke’s — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Form matters. The structure of a poem can mirror the scientific idea it describes, making both the form and the content work together. A nonnet, for example, is a perfect choice for writing about loss ...