DC Science Café presents: Versed in Science (and Math); An Evening of Poetry
Date and Time
Apr 20, 2015 6:30 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Apr 20, 2015 6:30 pm
450K
A DC Science Café Event:Versed in Science (and Math); An Evening of Poetry
Join us to hear the work of two accomplished poets, Rick Mullin and JoAnne Growney, and then read your own science-inspired poetry at the open mic. By day, Mullin is an editor with the weekly Chemical & Engineering News. By night, he is a bard, adopting a variety of poetic forms to tell the stories of his cultural heroes.
Mullin’s most recent collection, Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle, recounts the young Charles Darwin’s trek around the world in Petrarchan sonnets (sonnets with specified rhyme schemes) written as journal entries in Darwin’s voice.
Growney, a former professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, is a poet and mathematician who often explores where the twain of these pursuits meet in her blog “Intersections--Poetry with Mathematics.” Her poetry collections include Red Has No Reason and My Dance Is Mathematics.
Free and open to the public.
For more info, contact Ivan Amato: DCScienceCafe@dcswa.org
