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POETRY FOR ALL SEASONS |
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There
was poetry in the campus airand on the
Catalyst pagesin the verdant spring of '98. In anticipation of
the arrival of U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky to deliver the season's
final Wednesday Afternoon Lecture in late June, the Catalyst put
out a call to all the NIH poets hidden in labs and behind desks. We asked
that they submit their poetry for publication in the issue that would
coincide with the Pinsky reading (the MayJune 1998 issue). Some
poetic souls did, and the result was a page of whimsy and interdisciplinary
splendor. Several, perhaps shyer, individuals sent poems in after the
issue had closed. We put these away for a rainy, or snowy, day. Here's
one set. (The last will likely appear next issue, accompanying an interview
with the poet, who is leaving his day job as director of the Office of
Alternative Medicine.)
F.P.
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