Poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith. Credit: Shawn Miller/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Read excerpts of Tracy K. Smith’s poems, “My God, It’s Full of Stars” and “Watershed.” Read excerpts of Rafael ...

In “Scientific Inquiry,” children’s poet Susan Blackaby introduces us in an entertaining and memorable way to remember key vocabulary words used by scientists and engineers. Here is Blackaby’s poem, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American PZ Myers tipped me off to a science poetry ...

It is hard to find good children's poetry about science, as most scientists do not write poems, and most poets do not do experiments. John Scieszka and Lane Smith's Science Verse includes poems ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. April is National Poetry Month, and while poems about love and loss ...

"Poetry and science form the basis of my experience," wrote the Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub (1923-1998.) Probably the only poet who could lay claim to developing a strain of nude mice, ...

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She’s not exactly your typical science fiction writer, but Colorado poet Jessy Randall has done what precious few poets have ever done well: beautifully capture the way our emotional lives in the ...