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Poets for Science is a global community initiative exploring the connection between science and poetry.
Science
Poetry and science are allies, not opposites.
Jane Hirshfield
Co-Founder
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Poets for Science Gathering
November 12–14, 2026
Kent State University
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Science & Environment
The Power of Poetry:Jane Hirshfield at the Nobel Prize Summit 2023
Jane Hirshfield, David Hassler, and Poets for Science speak about the power of poetry and young poet scientists present their words in their native language.
Projects
Science & Climate
The Nature of Our Times: The Poets for Science Anthology
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, published by Paloma Press in association with Poets for Science, Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, and the United by Nature Initiative.
Science & Environment
From Pulse to Purpose: Celebrating 30 Years of GLOBE
The GLOBE community used poetry to share how GLOBE has made an impact on people and science across the world, in celebration of GLOBE’s 30th anniversary.
Science & Climate
Nobel Prize Summit 2023: Origin Story Community Poem
Listen to the “Origin Story” Community Poem performed at the Nobel Prize Summit, scripted by David Hassler
Science & Environment
CVNP Poetic Inventory: Light Enters the Grove
Stemming from years of close collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Light Enters the Grove celebrates the infinite ways poetry and science converse.
Science & Environment
Science & Health
Science & Climate
Video
Readings
Watch the Poets for Science collection as read by the contributing poets.
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Submit your original poem to Poets for Science.
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Respond to the poem “For All” by Gary Snyder to join the Poets for Science Global Community Poem.
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Hirshfield, who curated the poems, describes the posters as ‘Human-sized poems,’ bringing forward the human side of science—how we think and feel with its knowledge, how its knowledge touches our lives in ways from galactic to microscopic.
—Dana Isokawa, Poets & Writers
The Exhibit
Poets for Science creates customized participatory exhibits exploring the connection between science and poetry.
In the Media
“Finding hope in troubling times with poetry and science”
“On the Fifth Day”
“March for Science Organizer: ‘Titans’ Like Einstein, Galileo, Carson Engaged With Politics”
“Why scientists are marching on Washington and more than 600 other cities”
“Making Art at the March for Science”
“Poetry and language offer a balm for climate angst”
“The Two Feet of One Walking: Poets March for Science”
“An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe”
“American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right”
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