Recently I have purchased the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupying the Workplace (edited by Caroline Wright, M.L. Lyons & Eugenia Toledo, Lost Horse Press, 2015), and have found in it dozens of wonderful poems, including several that celebrate women of science. Below I offer a poem by New York poet Jo Pitkin that honors Ada Lovelace (1815-1852).
Bird, Moon, Engine by Jo Pitkin
Like a fence or a wall to keep me from harm,
tutors circled me with logic, facts, theorems.
But I hid the weeds growing wild in my mind.
By age five, I could plot the arc of a rainbow.
I could explain perpendicular and parallel.
In my mind, I heard the wind in wild weeds.
Showing posts with label Jo Pitkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jo Pitkin. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
