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...impetus for the slam was David J. Morin, elder statesman of Harvard physics poetry, who suggested the idea to SPS. Morin, the head teaching fellow for Physics 16, wrote the sourcebook for the class, which is filled with more than 40 limericks, including...
Scientists waxed poetic at the first-ever Society of Physics Students (SPS) poetry slam last month. At first, none of the 30 students gathered in Lyman 426 were willing to open their mouths—and it wasn’t just because of the eggplant pizza on the table...
...March slam, the shy poet-physicists divided into groups, each writing one line of a limerick before passing it off for the next group to compose the next line. This communal limericking resulted in mostly nonsense, but one poem survived the activity...
Though some SPS members characterized the poetry at the slam as “pretty lame,” it was a bona fide excuse to get their artistic juices flowing. The SPS officers, who hope to make the poetry slam an annual event, promise better food next time...
Koppel stepped up with the bases loaded in that frame, and launched a grand slam to left center for a comfortable 5-0 lead...