Exploring the Intersection of Science and Poetry

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In this chapter, the speakers discuss the intersection of science and creative expression, specifically focusing on the speaker's experience with ecology and poetry. They explore the concept of personal growth and evolution, how science has allowed them to integrate different aspects of their life, and the creative lens they put on nature and ecology. They also touch upon the speaker's unexpected success and recognition in their field.

Environmental models! Poetry! Scientists who are poets! Novelists who are scientists! Art + science = an actual -ology. Creative Ecologist, climate scientist, theoretical ecologist, author and celebrated poet Dr. Madhur Anand sits on a porch with me on an island to chat about storytelling, narratives in science, forest beetles, carbon stability, human motives, hip waders, technology meets nature, absurdity, identity, overcoming writer’s or scientist’s' block, and how accepting ourselves can be contagious. Forecast: you begin jotting down poems on envelopes.

Visit the Anand Lab in Global Ecological Change & Sustainability and follow Dr. Anand on Google Scholar and X

Buy Madhur Anand’s collections of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) and Parasitic Oscillations (2022), and her book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020)

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