Poetry and Technology

2016-04-25 by admin

This site is a gateway to PoetryandScience.com, which collects poetry written at the intersection of poetry, science and technology.

2016 was the twentieth anniversary of MIT’s “Pleasures of Poetry,” a month-long course that runs through the MIT Independent Activities Period. Literature professor David Thorburn kicked off the program in 1996. In an MIT web announcement, Thornburn said:

The idea is to convene a diverse community to discuss poetry. Regardless of one’s formal background in literature, poetry should be available to everybody.

MIT is a world-renowned teaching and research institute for technologists, but few know that the institution has also been cited for its work in the humanities. The same announcement reminded readers that

. . . Writing and studying poetry is frequently a path for increasing self-knowledge, discernment, and perseverance — all fine qualities to bring to creative, problem-solving endeavors. In 2015, when MIT was named one of the top three universities in the world for humanities and the arts, MIT President L. Rafael Reif reflected on why the Institute values the arts and humanities traditions, noting that “Humanities and arts teaching is central to guiding MIT students in their growth as human beings who…are prepared to be bold, thoughtful leaders of constructive change.

Less than human, listless, aimless as the green / Idiot fishes of my aquarium, / Who loiter down their dim tunnels / and come and look

Aldous Huxley

“Which is the World” by Gregory Orr

2016-05-03 by admin

A reading from a long poem by Gregory Orr, “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved,” at an event hosted by the Atlantic Review.

So Few Venues

2016-01-01 by darkviolin

PoetryandTechnology is technology as subject, not vehicle for traditional topics.

Listed here are Stanford’s Code Poetry Slam and MIT’s Well-Versed Institute, but there is little evidence that these efforts focus on poetry whose lens is focused on technology itself.

Poetry and Science

Poetry and Science is the most hospitable place for poetry with or about technology.

Lorine Niedecker on Charles Darwin

2016-05-03 by admin

The Poetry Foundation hosted a combination legacy reading by Lorine Niedecker and an analysis of her poem “Charles Darwin Condensed.” The discussants included Laura Sims and was produced by Curtis Fox.

The poem was published in Niedecker’s collection North Central (Fulcrum Press, 1968).

Image credit: Wikipedia Commons

Xerox Monophaser

2014-02-27 by darkviolin

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2014-02-28 by darkviolin

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