Articles

Earth, Cosmos, and the Language of Scale: Why Scientists Keep Writing Poems

From minerals to galaxies, scale reshapes the mind. This piece explores why working with vast time and space naturally pushes scientists toward poetic language.

The Hidden Curriculum of Grad School: Attention, Silence, and the Long Experiment

Graduate school teaches more than methods. It teaches attention—how to focus, endure uncertainty, and notice details. Those same skills quietly shape a poet.

When a Data Point Feels Like a Metaphor: Finding Poetry in Research

A scientist’s daily work is full of patterns—some statistical, some human. This piece explores how research routines quietly train the mind to write poetry.