| FDR & ME Washington- May 1940 Szilard, You Men must rally around the atom's might, He said that day, his voice bombarding us You must not hestitate in this good fight. As soon as he began I saw the light, Each sentence wrapping me in its embrace. I,too,must rally round the atom's might. And all of you, he said, must put to flight Your doubts. The world is as it always was. You must not hestitate in this good fight. He speaks to me, I thought. And he is right. It's not our fault. The world is mad, not us. I, too, must rally around the atom's might. It's up to you, he said, to keep the light Of freedom glowing in the dark. God knows, You must not hestitate in this good fight. Never, I swore. I, too, have seen the light Of freedom snuffed. And lived to keep these vows. I, too,will rally round the atom's might. And will not hesitate in this good fight. Teller |
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| The Guy Who Passed Me Doing 90 MPH and Playing the Trumpet Left hand in charge of steering, his right on the valves, lips compressed-jeez, how could his embouchure hold firm in thruway traffic?-why this lunatic didn't createfresh carnage beats me; the speeding jerks on their yammering cell phones lead sainted lives by comparison. I love this blessed solitude while driving, that heavenly, insulated half-hour or so so quiet except for the car wheels revolving, turning the world under- foot. Cool and modern, hot, baroque, or classical? Armstrong of Miles of Purcell? So What? Or Copeland's Fanfare? Or Taps for those cut down like grain as Gabriel harvests his highway?Yes, Taps for everybody jamming the planet, those half a dozen more hornmen blowing up the proverbial storm, burning ancient charts in a riff like an X-ray whose tonic revelation rouses the dead to the flame of sunrise. |
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| Poetry Meets Physics: George Drew George Drew's Southern and Northern roots inform his poetry, both autobiographically and culturally, particularly in his first volume of poetry, Toads in a Poisoned Tank (1986).His chapbook So many Bones(Poems of Russia) (1997) grew out of two trips to Russia in the mid-1990s, just a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drew's most recent volume, The Horse's Name was Physics(Turning Point Press,2006, an imprint of World Tech Communications) reflects the author's interest in the intersection of art and science- the Humanities and the Sciences. The Horse's Name was Physics focuses on many key characters involved in the development of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, from around the turn of the 20th century up to and including Los Alamos. In the poems, cast in the form of letters, monologs, and various lyrics, the characters are talking to and about each other, detailing their lives, their work, their moral and ethical concerns, their philosophy and their human quandaries. Drew examines the philosophical and moral paradoxes those scientists had to wrestle with. He also extends this to the nexus of science and art-how often the scientist uses the imagination in his work, and how even the artist's work can explore and use the fundamental laws of science. Drew has published widely in journals throughout the countryand has work upcoming in Atlanta Review, Bayou, Fugue, New Millennium, The Teacher's Voice, The New England Writers Anthology, and The Sow's Ear Poetry Review. He won the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award and the 2007 Stephen Dunn Poetry Award. Drew's work has been anthologized in many volumes, including The Breath of Parted Lips: Part 2 (poems from The Frost Place, CavanKerry Press) and in Visiting Frost( University of Iowa Press). "What strikes one most on reading his work," says Christopher Bursk, "is the energy of it, and behind this energy the faith of language to transform our knowledge of dark things into a felt truth that we can bear and even delight in." Come and be a part of that energy, that faith, and that delight with a new, more interactive Q & A reading format. |
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| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 • 12:30 p.m. • Visual Arts Gallery • Dearlove Hall |
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| Why I Write Poetry: Jay Rogoff I write poems because I love to write poems. |
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| Monday, November 12, 2007 • 12:30 p.m. • Visual Arts Gallery • Dearlove Hall |
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