Each Wednesday, Editor's Choice brings you a poem from a new book selected as a must-read. Our feature editor this week is Jennifer Atkinson.
Devin Johnston
Not days of anger
but days of irritation,
light through dirty glass,
songs of horse and rider,
tornado sirens
for a storm that rumbles past
but finds no clear rotation.

Not days of anger
but days of slow connection,
days of snow geese passing
north above the river,
days of eros
endlessly drawn out
through error and confusion.

Not days of anger
but days of indirection,
contrails like
cathedral arches
and rumor of morels,
days without a strike,
days of binding arbitration.

Not days of anger
but days of mild congestion,
infants of inconstant sorrow,
days of foam in gutters,
blossoms and snow
mingling where they fall,
a spring of cold profusion.
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How Poetry Can Help Communicate Science

"At first glance, poetry might seem to have very little to offer science, other than a few choice compliments or cursory remarks. However, it can be an extremely effective medium through which to communicate new research and even advance scientific knowledge."

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"After a long hiatus from school, I was working on a Master’s in literature, and just beginning to write poems of my own, when I first read Marilyn Chin’s Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. This book, with its densely allusive fabric, hyper-vivid imagery, and wild formal range, opened up my idea of what poetry can do. 'Horse Horse Hyphen Hyphen,' which I wrote about extensively in my thesis, is one of the central loci for all the concerns of the book..."
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