Oakland Local & the Campanil!

Poetry for Scientists has been featured in an article in the Oakland Social section of the online paper Oakland Local, entitled "Revenge of the Nerds." The article begins with a discussion of the modern nerd who, as article author Bonnie Chan states, "pursues literature alongside neuroscience, or the nerd who has a deep interest in social phenomena and a vast understanding of systems, thus producing a potential to draw connections and metaphors between scientific theory and human behavior."  Her description of the modern nerd, a moniker which had never occurred to me to apply to any of my fellow Poetry for Scientists members or myself, is incredibly in line with our vision of ourselves: delivering the complicated, technical jargon of research and theory in a metaphorical, creative form.

To read the article, please click here.

Poetry for Scientists was also featured in an article in the Mills College newspaper The Campanil by Annie O'Hare. You can read this article on page five of the paperless edition of Spring 2013 Issue 22 here.