I will be taking part in this event!
Busboys and Poets, 5th and K, at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 19, 2012
Science Cafe presents, "Science meets Poetry!"
Science and technology are behind many of our time’s great ongoing narratives and so these categories of human endeavor offer rich fodder for the analytic and synthetic powers of poetry. Join us to hear the work of two featured poets, Myra Sklarew and Michael Salcman, and several other local poets. Myra Sklarew studied biology at Tufts University, bacterial genetics and viruses at Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory and frontal lobe function and memory in Rhesus monkeys at Yale’s School of Medicine.
Former president of the artist community Yaddo and professor emerita of literature at American University where she began teaching in 1970, Sklarew is the author of three chapbooks and seven poetry collections. Michael Salcman, a neurosurgeon, studied liberal arts and medicine in the
combined six-year program at Boston University, neurophysiology of vision and motor function at the National Institutes of Health, and neurosurgery
at Columbia University's Neurological Institute. He has served in the past as chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum. Salcman has written six books of poetry and a forthcoming anthology of poems about doctors and diseases.
Free and open to all!
