The Queue

M aria Montessori, an Italian physician, educator, and innovator once proclaimed, “We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” Through that very quote, Montessori was able to answer the burning question of why scientists need to read poetry.   To expand, let us first consider the following definitions derived from an everyday Google search: po·et·ry ˈpōətrē/ noun 1 . literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings. sci·ence ˈsīəns/ noun 1. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. With respect to both of these definitions, Google Dictionary failed to identify arguably the most defining characteristic of both these studies: the practice of understanding a concept by being curious and exploring. Though seemingly unre...

Here's my poem lol Struggl by: Albert Lee I was chilling for a bit But I’m back now I sit my butt back down I look up at my laptop in sorrow I gotta finish my blog post Pain rolls through my body As I try to think of ways to avoid “it” I try and cry and try “it’s” just too common! What do I do? How could I possibly fill 12 rows without “it”? Wait actually… I just did it! Yayy! I couldn’t continue a coherent thought due to the fact that I kept hitting the barrier of implementing the letter E. Every time I would keep writing what came to mind and I would notice that it had the letter E in it. Initially, I tried to find an alternative for the problematic words. But that didn’t work due to the fact that too many have the letter E in it. Then, I would delete the entire line and try to find another way to continue the thought. Eventually, I got kind of lucky and managed to piece together a poem without the letter E.

Art has always been influenced by the world in which it is created. Artists paint the world they see outside their window, and likewise, all that poets write is in some way a product of their environment. We can see these trends throughout history as the ebb and flow of poetic movements mirrors the phases the world is going through. To illustrate this, I will be focusing on a few movements in poetry, and placing them within the context of their time to illustrate the close ties between poetry and history. There are many other examples of poetic movements that reflect their historical backdrop which I will not discuss here, but I will go ahead and give two examples. First, let’s take a look at the transcendentalists. Transcendentalism was a movement that began around 1790, and focused heavily on depictions of natural beauty and pastoral paradises. Poets from this movement often described, in considerable detail, idyllic natural settings, and were more about creating images than tel...

I can’t fit this poem in this box By: Nina Galvez I have folded it, shaped it, even cut it. Yet I still can’t shut this box. I have tried square, triangle, even pentagonal boxes. And it wouldn’t fit into any of my pockets. I can’t fit this poem in this box. They told me, “Stop! Don’t hurt it, you are meant to learn it.” Nonsense I say, I’m only trying to condense the multi-meaning words. “But that is the point,” they say, “Don’t break it into thirds.” By putting this poem in a box, I will have encased it, displayed it for all to see. “Don’t you dare, you are taking from it all that it will be!” Wait, but what do you mean? “You can’t fit a poem into a box for it has more than one memo. So, stop trying to match it to one specific tempo!” I wrote this poem from the questioner point of view. Then tried to answer their question in my own interpretive way. My answer was trying to convey that you can’t fit a poem into a box because a box is v...