
ArtsAugust 18, 2026
Poem: ‘The Bachelor, Season 92 Million’
Science in meter and verse
Jessica Nordell, a writer and poet with a background in physics, is author of The End of Bias: A Beginning (Metropolitan Books, 2021). Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, Best New Poets and Copper Nickel. Her debut poetry manuscript, Your Singing Is How We Will Find You, was a finalist for the 2026 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Nordell lives in Minneapolis, where she plays drums in a dad rock cover band.

Poem: ‘The Bachelor, Season 92 Million’
Science in meter and verse