Scientists

Conversation with
Peter Munro

Rattle #49 features poetry from twenty scientists, and an expansive conversation with Alaskan fisheries scientist Peter Munro. We received over 1,000 submissions from poets working in the sciences, and with this issue we explore the relationship between science and poetry through poetry. How does rigorous investigation influence the poetry? Is verse an escape from, or an extension of, the day job? We’ll study that.

It isn’t all hard data and peer review, though—the issue’s open section also features another 19 poets from non-scientific backgrounds.

	Scientists
	Len Anderson	The Basic Question
	Daniel Becker	Joint National Commissions Galore
	Dennis Caswell	Turing Test
	Meg Eden	Tohoku Ghost Stories
	Anna M. Evans	The Non-Euclidean Universe
	Annelyse Gelman	How to Pray
	Richard Hedderman	Mummies
	Ilana Kelsey	Grandmother:
	Julie Bloss Kelsey	Four Haiku
	Ruth Madievsky	Tuning Fork
	Peter Munro	If This Is Middle Age Then I’ll Die at 93.667
	John Nimmo	Advice to a New Postdoc
	Erin Noteboom	Curie in Love
	Edward Nudelman	Inertia Violated
	Katrina Outland	Cleaning
	Julia Runcie	How the River
	Amy Schrader	You Might Think This Is What Happens
	Matthew J. Spireng	Dog Sitting in Snow
	Arthur J. Stewart	Five Types of Confidence
	Suzanne Zeitman	Pathetic
	Open Poetry
	George Bilgere	Ghostly Heron
	Franny Choi	Home (Initial Findings)
	Lauren S. Cook	Oranges
	Mike Faran	Enchilada Night
	Alan Fox	Ashes to …
	Ethan Joella	A Prayer for Ducks
	Lynn Levin	Buying Produce from the Marked-Down Cart
	Nina Lindsay	In the End
	Michael Mark	Roly-Poly Bodhisattva
	James Davis May	At the Artists’ Colony
	Bronwen Butter Newcott	Shame at Eight
	Jack Ridl	“Together in the Back Yard”
	Anele Rubin	Tired
	Adam Scheffler	1WTC
	Thadra Sheridan	When They Told Me You Had Died
	Sarah Pemberton Strong	Anesthesia
		Stalin
	Dennis Trudell	Holiday Tale
	Irene Wellman	Vision
	Mike White	So, If Everyone Jumped Off a Bridge
	Conversation
	Peter Munro
	Cover
	Colleen McLaughlin