Land of Extremes: Poetry of the Sonoran Desert
The language of one of the harshest and most diverse ecosystems on Earth.
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Does Science Diminish Wonder or Augment It?
Two great poems composed over 200 years apart examine the relationship between reason and imagination.
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Death & Rebirth in Forests
On the Lives of Trees
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“You’ll Know Her by Her Foot”
An ornithologist reflects on Emily Dickinson’s “You’ll know her by her foot.”
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A Natural, Reviving Violence
A reflection on Marianne Moore’s “The Fish.”
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The Mushroom’s Small Stature and Subtle Strength
A microbial ecologist reflects on Sylvia Plath’s “Mushrooms.”
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Richard Dawkins on Poetry
The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.
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Einstein Among the Daffodils
A science historian and English professor discuss how physics and poetry mix.
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Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.
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How Doctors Use Poetry
A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal.
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Meet Harvard’s Own Poet-Physician
Rafael Campo on finding the humanity in medicine and science.
