{"id":346,"date":"2016-02-04T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=346"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","slug":"winning-poem-published-by-nasa-chandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2016\/02\/04\/winning-poem-published-by-nasa-chandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Poem Published by NASA-Chandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_347\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/02\/ps1_525.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-347\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/02\/ps1_525-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz) \" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/02\/ps1_525-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/02\/ps1_525.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A poem by Bethan Nutting, second-year English with Creative Writing student, has been published on NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-Ray Observatory&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/blog\/node\/586\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the second-year Creative Writing module, &#8220;Using Stories,&#8221; students are encouraged to explore the relationship between science and writing, and to use theories and concepts from science as starting-points for their writing. This year, the module included a guest lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/physics\/research\/xroa\/staff-list\">Dr. Ian Whittaker<\/a> from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and a reading by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaslitempire.co.uk\/\">Rod Duncan<\/a>, speculative fiction writer. \u00a0In one of the workshops, students were encouraged to write &#8220;found poetry&#8221; based on some of the remarkable findings of NASA&#8217;s X-Ray Observatory in Harvard, Chandra. Following this, we ran a competition in partnership with staff at NASA-Chandra to find the best student poem based on their groundbreaking discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was judged by myself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/english\/people\/dr-jonathan-taylor\">Dr Jonathan Taylor<\/a>, following previous poems which I have written for NASA-Chandra. You can read one of them <a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/blog\/node\/190\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner of this competition is Bethan Nutting, with her beautiful poem &#8220;Stellar Homicide.&#8221; Her winning poem is now published on NASA-Chandra&#8217;s hugely popular website <a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/blog\/node\/586\">here.<\/a>\u00a0The original press release from NASA-Chandra, which formed the source material for the poem, can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/press\/12_releases\/press_050312.html\">here.<\/a> Congratulations to Bethan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A poem by Bethan Nutting, second-year English with Creative Writing student, has been published on NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-Ray Observatory&#8217;s blog here. As part of the second-year Creative Writing module, &#8220;Using Stories,&#8221; students are encouraged to explore the relationship between science and writing, and to use theories and concepts from science as starting-points for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26,4,27,6,7,28],"tags":[49,51,54,50,53,52],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-prizes","category-public-events","category-research","category-students","tag-centre-for-new-writing","tag-chandra","tag-competition","tag-nasa","tag-poetry","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}