Spotlight Essay

Virtual Nature: The Patterns in Us All

Apr 03, 2015

Poetry Spotlight Essay by Carol Dorf and Martha Nichols

Be it smokestacks or genetically modified corn, technology rarely comes off smelling like a daffodil.

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Muriel Rukeyser: Beyond Safe Subjects

Feb 17, 2014

Introduction to "Honoring Rukeyser" by Carol Dorf

When I first read U.S.1, the sure hand of this very young poet amazed me.

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The Big Bang of Prose Poetry

Jan 14, 2013

Spotlight Essay by Carol Dorf

Fiction offers the illusion of characters moving through time. In poetry, everything happens in an instant.

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Math Girl Fights Back

Feb 29, 2012

Essay by Karen Ohlson

When I hear a comment implying that math and writing inhabit separate worlds, I swoop in like a crime-stopping superhero.

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Why Poets Sometimes Think in Numbers

Jan 09, 2012

Introduction by Carol Dorf

Often when I tell people about my life, they ask, 'Poetry and mathematics?'

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A Nonmathematician Falls in Love

Jan 09, 2012

Essay by Elizabeth Langosy

One poem featured the Blob complaining to its mother about its lack of physical boundaries.

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