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Sat in the fantastic Cats: Predators to Pets exhibit at the Field Museum. Here is one of three drafts I started.

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Draft of a poem seeking to describe the weirdness of the Cambrian seas. Any scientific/poetic thoughts welcome!

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

TRex poem written at the Field Museum. Paleontology is an open field for poetry that, by its very nature, is non-fictional. The speculation necessary for interesting and coherent science is perfect for poetic utterances...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Poetry at the Field Museum near a new model of Sue (with an edmontosaurus in their mouth). The typewriter is a beautiful Hermes Rocket. The broadside laying there is a poem titled "Sue's True Skull" with an amazing illusration by Peggy Macnamara. Available here www.vergebooks.com/eric-elshtain-

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Written while sitting in front the the huge perched quetzalcoatlus statue in the Field Museum and watching high school art students sketch the beast.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

I am the Field Museum poet-in-residence. I typically post poems-in-progress from my weekly poetry "pop-ups." I sit in a different part of the Field every Thursday, compose poems, and help visitors compose poems that capture some aspect of their journey of discovery through the Field Museum.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments