tonight, we hear from katherine larson, she won the yale series of younger poets competition last year, and last month received the kate tufts discovery award, which recognizes poets of "genuine promise." in the last decade or so i've been a molecular biologist and field ecologist and at the same time i've been working in the finances. i got my masters of fine arts in poetry so much of my poetry is infuse bid the science that i work in. i grew up in a family of educators. my father was a professor of forestry and my mother was a fourth-grade teacher. she had an avid love for science so she had a classroom full of turtles and guinea pigs and tarantulas and even a madagascar hissing cockroach. having my daughter has altered my perspective of the world in the ways i wasn't prepared for. and i think that because i'm an ecologist i think about the state of the planet and what it's going to be like with her when she's grown. so if you think a little bit about how my poetry and writing can reach into those places. my first collection is called radial symmetry. for many pieces of the book ther