The Path of Most Resistance

Poems on Women in Science

Jessy Randall, Kristin DiVona

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Goldsmiths, University of London
24 June 2025

Poetry anthologies; Psychology; Advice on careers & achieving success

Poems about historical women in STEM fields.

Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes they simply managed to exist and persist despite endless obstacles and a criminal lack of acknowledgment. Carefully researched, thoughtful, pitch perfect and precise, these poems about historical women scientists are hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time.

There are women here whose names you may know (Rachel Carson, Mae Jemison, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Beatrix Potter) and others you probably don’t (Tapputi-Belatekallim, June Bacon-Bercey, Eugenie Clark, Beatrice Medicine, Gladys West). Randall has a fine-tuned knack for metaphor and plain language, and her poetry unpicks injustice alongside complex scientific ideas. If you’ve seen Randall’s poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov’s Science Fiction, you may already have been drawn into these extraordinary stories. Illustrated with portraits by NASA artist Kristin DiVona, these poems will resonate with scientists, feminists, thinkers, learners, philosophers, poets, and truth-seekers young, old and everywhere in between.

By: Jessy Randall, Kristin DiVona
Imprint: Goldsmiths, University of London
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781915983275
ISBN 10: 1915983274
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 24 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jessy Randall is the author of the poetry collections Mathematics for Ladies (2022), How to Tell If You Are Human (2018), Suicide Hotline Hold Music (2016), There Was an Old Woman (2015), Injecting Dreams into Cows (2012), and A Day in Boyland (2007), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her poems and stories have appeared in Poetry, McSweeney's, Nature, and Scientific American. Working at the intersection of science and design, Kristin is the Visual Information Specialist for NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, one of NASA’s Great Observatories. Kristin's responsibilities for Chandra include spearheading the creation, distribution, and evaluation of large-scale science and technology communications projects.