Forbes Tests Poetry's Limits With Emileigh Barnes

The latest episode of Forbes podcast The Limit Does Not Exist features hosts Christina Wallace and Cate Scott Campbell in conversation with Emileigh Barnes, poet and content designer for "18F, a division of the General Services Administration that could basically be described as a tech startup inside the federal government," about the ways that creativity and STEM collide. Here's a teaser:

This week on Episode 15 we had the opportunity to sit down with Emileigh Barnes, a poet and content designer for 18F, a division of the General Services Administration that could basically be described as a tech startup inside the federal government. Barnes started her education in journalism and then completed an MFA in poetry before finding her way to tech and public service. Now she spends her days thinking about the best way to convey information to the public, whether using plain language to better understand campaign finance laws or how to design a government website for kids.

And while she enjoys her job with 18F, she also carves out time to stay active in writing poetry. Barnes has been published in the BathHouse hybrid arts journal, the Cricket Online Review, and the Strange Machine poetry journal, as well as published two chapbooks of her own, Constant and Given. We noticed that quite a few of her poems were inspired by science and math, and asked if the mathematics of poetry drew her in that direction. (You’ll have to take a listen to the episode for the answer to that question!)

Tune in to Campbell, Wallace, and Barnes's conversation at Forbes.