
Found poetry
For Srikanth Reddy, writing a poem is as much an act of excavation as creation.Not long after his first book of poems came out in 2004 and a bad case of writer’s block came on, Srikanth Reddy picked up the political memoirs of Kurt Waldheim—international statesman and possible accomplice to Nazi war crimes—and started crossing out words.

Founding genes
Nearly every winter, Chicago geneticist Carole Ober heads to South Dakota to meet with a group of agreeable farmers.