And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues.
I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems.
Here is Poem Three, requested by @hhlee.
(more…)And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues.
I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems.
Here is Poem Three, requested by @hhlee.
(more…)And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues.
I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems.
Here is Poem Two, requested by @SandraMicrogirl.
(more…)And so I begin #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems.
I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems.
Here is Poem One, requested by @KateBradfordSci.
(more…)Science meets art on Tracy Debenport’s Instagram page, under.the.scope. It’s full of fluffy fungi on colorful agar plates and fungi transformed through the microscope.
Debenport didn’t set out to be a collector of fungi. In a previous life she was a video editor for a reality TV show. But in 2011, after a near fatal encounter with spinal meningitis left her with chronic neuropathy (a condition affecting the normal activity of nerves), she needed to choose a new path - one that doesn’t involve long hours at a computer. She returned to school and left with a degree in biotechnology. (more…)
I was inspired to write this poem (first poem on The Microbial Menagerie!) from a writing workshop I’ve been taking.
We were reading Workshop by BIlly Collins, and there was a line in there “Or is it a kind of indoor cemetery? There’s something about death going on here.” that this is loosely based upon.