Poet and teacher Sam Illingworth does much to celebrate the links between poetry and the sciences. He is the founder of Consilience, an online journal that links poetry and artwork with science. And he has a blog, The Poetry of Science, in which each week he presents a poem based on a new science idea that he has recently learned. Here are the opening lines of a poem posted in August, 2021:
from Artificial Weather by Sam Illingworth
Buoyant skies linger overhead,
bulging at the seams
with surging intent;
capricious threats
that fall indiscriminately
against the statistical fortitude
of our modelled routines. . . . read more here . . .
Here is a link to earlier mentions of Illingworth's work in this blog.
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