[SEMCO] PEANUT BUTTER CLUB AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

[Joanne Tromp]

*PEANUT BUTTER CLUB AT WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: *Hosts poet 
Katherine Coles and scientist Alice Alpert who will present "The 
Scientist and the Poet -- A Brief Encounter Amid Antarctic Ice" on 
Friday, September 20, at noon in Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, 
Woods Hole.Alice Alpert, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint 
Program, studies what the chemistry of coral skeletons can tell us about 
the ocean in the past. Before coming to WHOI, she worked in Antarctica 
as a lab technician. There she met poet Katharine Coles, whose visit was 
sponsored by the National Science Foundation as part of a program to 
bring artists and writers to the forbidding continent. Coles' book of 
poems based on that experience, /The Earth Is Not Flat/, was just 
published by Red Hen Press. Sponsored by the WHOI Information Office. 
Coffee, tea, and cookies served. Donations accepted.
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