October 31, 2016
Shayla Love: “On Writing Science”
Read the previous post by Jesse De Angelis When I was little, I would hold books from my father’s bookshelf in my lap, and pretend I knew how to read. […]
October 28, 2016
Jesse De Angelis: “Science and Poetics”
Read the previous post by Alice Major Read the next post by Shayla Love I think that while science writing and literary writing have many things in common and can […]
October 26, 2016
Alice Major: “Science and Poetics”
Read the previous post by Hilda Johnston Read the next post by Jesse De Angelis Notes or not? When you’re a poet who writes about science, you’re in a constant […]
October 25, 2016
Hilda Johnston: “A Bard for the Gene: On The Gene: An Intimate History“
Read the previous post by Sara Talpos Read the next post by Alice Major On The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee. New York, NY: Scribner, 2016. 608 pages. […]
October 20, 2016
Sara Talpos: “Science Writing as a Literary Art: What Are the Challenges?”
Read the previous post by Dawne Shand Read the next post by Hilda Johnston This year’s May 30 issue of The New Yorker presents a letter from reader Florian Maderspacher, […]
October 18, 2016
Dawne Shand: “On Writing Science”
Read the previous post by Karen Malpede Read the next post by Sara Talpos Before I sing the praises one of the most obscure books in the monumental stack of […]
October 13, 2016
Karen Malpede: “Science and Poetics”
Read the previous post by Joshua Roebke Read the next post by Dawne Shand Science Writing: A Playwright’s Story I am a playwright and writer with Bachelor of Science and […]
October 12, 2016
Joshua Roebke: “On Writing Science”
Read the previous post by E. A. Farro Read the next post by Karen Malpede Can science be the theme of literature? There are few if any barriers to literature. […]
October 10, 2016
E. A. Farro: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Karen Luper Read the next post by Joshua Roebke As a field and laboratory scientist I used my whole body for work. So totally immersed, […]
October 6, 2016
Karen Luper: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Brian Doyle Read the next post by E. A. Farro When I think about what makes science writing beautiful to me (and that beauty might […]
October 4, 2016
Brian Doyle: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Benjamin Kolp Read the next post by Karen Luper One of my pettest peeves is the ostensible dichotomy between science and religion; but this is […]
September 30, 2016
Welcome to The Poetics of Science!
Can science writing be a literary art? Here at KR, we obviously think so, and we have created a special issue—The Poetics of Science—to demonstrate the many ways in which […]