The Natural History Museum of Utah is participating in the Field Work: Aligning Poetry & Science project, an initiative designed to humanize scientific language through poetry. This effort aims to help audiences develop deeper and more meaningful connections with the natural history they encounter.
As a culminating result of this partnership, a poetry path has been created along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail outside the Museum. NHMU's Poet-in-Residence, Kate Coles, selected the poem excerpts for the project, which are engraved on stones visible from the trail.
The engraved poems include works by several authors: Laughter by Crisosto Apache, Wind, Water, Stone by Octavio Paz, A Debris Field of Apocalypticians-A Murder of Crows by Dana Levin, Culture and Universe by Simon J. Ortiz, For the Listener by C.L. Rawlins, Guilty of Dust by Frank Bidart, and Never to Dream of Spiders by Audre Lorde.
Field Work: Aligning Poetry & Science is a two-city art and science program focused on fostering STEM learning through poetry. The project involves Poets House, a national poetry library in New York City, working alongside the Salt Lake City Public Library and the Natural History Museum of Utah to engage audiences through collaborative language arts experiments.
