Join us for the STEAM Café this month! April’s STEAM talk, “How to Look at the World: Poetry, Science, and Creativity”, will be presented by Dr. Christy Tidwell and Dr. Matthew Whitehead, South Dakota Mines faculty members in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

What does poetry have to do with science? The two might seem fundamentally dissimilar, belonging to different realms, but both offer opportunities to look carefully, communicate observations, make connections, and present perspectives that help us understand the world more fully – piece by piece, experience by experience. Drs. Christy Tidwell and Matthew Whitehead, faculty members in the South Dakota Mines Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, explore these similarities and more for National Poetry Month. They will discuss the role of creativity in the sciences, introduce some poetry basics, share short poems that explore scientific topics, and lead an activity for audience members to create their own poems.