美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Poetry Month Kicks Off With Your Twitter Submissions

 

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

It's April 1, but this is no joke. It's time for our annual Twitter poetry call out. In honor of National Poetry Month, we are inviting¹ you to tweet us your poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. And here's a haiku to kick it off (reading) replies on Twitter of poems to consider here on ATC.

OK. You know Liz Baker² wrote that. Anyhow, we issued the invitation last week to get the creative juices flowing, and we'll share one of our favorites in just a minute. But first, here's a quick recap of what we're looking for. We really do want a single tweet. That means 140 characters or less. We've been captivated by a few submissions³ only to realize that the tweet is actually a stanza⁴ of a longer poem. We'll let it slide this week because we're just getting started, but, please, we are looking for your original poems that are complete in one tweet.

Another trend we've noticed - people are sending us poems they've illustrated⁵ or drawn⁶ over photos. We love the creativity, but this is radio - so yeah. But if it meets the character count, we'll keep it in the mix. And one final note here - and this is the honor system - your original work only please. Only tweet it if you wrote it. Now without further ado, here's Alison Gilchrist, a graduate student in Boulder⁷, Colo.

ALISON GILCHRIST: Biology's not so poetic⁸. It's filled with words like hematopoietic. What's a poet to do when she's a scientist, too, and stuck with deoxyribonucleic?

MARTIN: She tweeted (reading) I'm not going to quit my day job, but this was fun to write.

GILCHRIST: In graduate school, I've learned that it can be really hard to write in the sciences because there's so much jargon⁹ to avoid if you don't want to be completely inaccessible¹⁰ to a general audience. So I wanted to write about how hard it is to be a poet when all of your words are eight or more syllables¹¹ long.

MARTIN: And you know these poems go by so fast. So let's hear Alison's poem again.

GILCHRIST: Biology's not so poetic. It's filled with words like hematopoietic. What's a poet to do when she's a scientist, too, and stuck with deoxyribonucleic?

MARTIN: In case you were wondering, hematopoietic refers to blood stem cells in the bone marrow¹², and you probably know deoxyribonucleic acid by its less than poetic name DNA¹³.

We'll be back with more Twitter poems tomorrow. If you want to hear your work on the program, tweet us submissions under the hashtag #NPRpoetry.

1 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。

2 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

3 submissions   

n.提交( submission的名词复数 )；屈从；归顺；向法官或陪审团提出的意见或论据

参考例句：

• The deadline for submissions to the competition will be Easter 1994. 递交参赛申请的截止时间为1994年的复活节。 来自辞典例句
• Section 556(d) allows the agency to substitute written submissions for oral direct testimony in rulemaking. 第五百五十六条第（四）款准允行政机关在规则制定中用书面提交材料替代口头的直接证言。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法

4 stanza   

n.（诗）节，段

参考例句：

• We omitted to sing the second stanza.我们漏唱了第二节。
• One young reporter wrote a review with a stanza that contained some offensive content.一个年轻的记者就歌词中包含有攻击性内容的一节写了评论。

5 illustrated   

adj. 有插图的，列举的 动词illustrate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• His lecture was illustrated with slides taken during the expedition. 他在讲演中使用了探险时拍摄到的幻灯片。
• The manufacturing Methods: Will be illustrated in the next chapter. 制作方法将在下一章说明。

6 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

7 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。

8 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

9 jargon   

n.术语，行话

参考例句：

• They will not hear critics with their horrible jargon.他们不愿意听到评论家们那些可怕的行话。
• It is important not to be overawed by the mathematical jargon.要紧的是不要被数学的术语所吓倒.

10 inaccessible   

adj.达不到的，难接近的

参考例句：

• This novel seems to me among the most inaccessible.这本书对我来说是最难懂的小说之一。
• The top of Mount Everest is the most inaccessible place in the world.珠穆朗玛峰是世界上最难到达的地方。

11 syllables   

n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a word with two syllables 双音节单词
• 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓，它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

12 marrow   

n.骨髓；精华；活力

参考例句：

• It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow. 天气太冷了，他感到寒冷刺骨。
• He was tired to the marrow of his bones.他真是累得筋疲力尽了。

13 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。