{"id":24419,"date":"2023-03-16T16:28:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/?p=24419"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:04:17","slug":"poems-against-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/poems-against-pollution","title":{"rendered":"Poems against pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/hanford-challenge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25404\" style=\"width:1030px;height:687px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/hanford-challenge-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/hanford-challenge-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/hanford-challenge-1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/hanford-challenge-1-600x314.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, located in southeast Washington state, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During World War II and the Cold War, the federal government used the site to make plutonium for nuclear weapons. Workers at Hanford produced the plutonium so quickly that they started \u2018disposing\u2019 hazardous waste directly into the air, the soil, the Columbia River and unlined trenches. Over the years, this totaled to more than 450 billion gallons of radioactive and chemical waste \u2014 the equivalent of more than 680,000 Olympic size swimming pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While all this happened decades ago, the radioactive and chemical waste created during this time is still being dealt with today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years, which makes it an inherently intergenerational problem,\u201d said Dr. Shannon Cram, assistant professor in the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/ias\">School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Washington Bothell. \u201cCleanup doesn\u2019t make Hanford\u2019s waste disappear. Much of it will be there forever, in human time scales.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help raise awareness of the site and to advocate for its safe cleanup, Cram recently called upon the creative powers of UW Bothell students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building on her history with Hanford<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cram is a longtime member of Hanford Challenge, an organization dedicated to cleaning up the site as well as worker health and safety. She began volunteering with the organization in 2009 while conducting dissertation research in graduate school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather built roads at Hanford during the Cold War, and my family is from the area,\u201d she said, \u201cso I have my own intergenerational relationship with the site.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Cram-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25405\" style=\"width:600px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Cram-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Cram-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Cram-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Cram-1-600x334.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shannon Cram, assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She currently represents the UW on the Hanford Advisory Board, a multi-stakeholder body that provides policy advice to the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology. One of Cram\u2019s core interests serving on the HAB is public involvement \u2014 finding creative ways for individuals and communities to engage in meaningful conversations about the cleanup process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, she collaborated with Hanford Challenge to facilitate the organization\u2019s Hot Poetry contest at UW Bothell, which invites students to write poems about the legacy of nuclear weapon waste. Cleanup is an interdisciplinary challenge, and the poetry contest has drawn students from across the University\u2019s schools, including majors in Educational Studies, Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences, Nursing &amp; Health Studies and STEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause the Hanford Site will affect generations to come, one of Hanford Challenge\u2019s primary goals is to involve young people in cleanup efforts,\u201d Cram said. \u201cThis poetry contest helps to spread awareness and is open to any college or university student 18 years or older in Washington state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A place for the things we can\u2019t solve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sunita Iyer, associate teaching professor in the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/nhs\">School of Nursing &amp; Health Studies<\/a>, required students in one of her health policy classes to submit poems to the Hanford Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25406\" style=\"width:400px;height:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-1-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunita Iyer, associate teaching professor, School of Nursing &amp; Health Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love weaving art and writing into my courses,\u201d Iyer said, \u201cI write poetry myself and think of it as a place for the things we can\u2019t necessarily solve and as an art form that makes intimidating topics accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hanford Site is certainly an intimidating topic, noted Cram, and members of the public often don\u2019t know where or how to engage. \u201cOne of the great things about using poetry to think about cleanup is that it doesn\u2019t require students to have a vast technical or policy background,\u201d she said. \u201cPoetry allows students to participate in a conversation about Hanford in a way that feels meaningful and accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe all have something to say about intergenerational equity or wanting a clean environment or safety for workers \u2014 those are things we can all speak to, regardless of our area of study.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students in Iyer\u2019s course spent a large part of the quarter learning about Hanford, having Cram as a guest speaker and using resources from the Hanford Challenge\u2019s website. Iyer also led them through a study of poetry, viewing it as both activism and a healthy form of human expression. \u201cScientific health research is often hard to digest,\u201d she explained, \u201cand research suggests that poetry can help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When poetry and science come together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the curriculum, students watched a TEDx Talk by Dr. Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Iyer said, \u201cand she suggests that \u2018using arts in research can be a new way of understanding health challenges and can also help improve health outcomes. Poetry can generate new knowledge, represent findings and influence the use of research for positive change.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to studying poetry, the students wrote poems of their own. Two class sessions were spent creating group poems that responded to discussions on the health care system, inequities and disparities in health care and policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had students share words that represented how it felt to be voiceless, frustrated and yet saddled with the responsibility of the health care system \u2014 and use these words and phrases to create this incredible poem,\u201d Iyer said. \u201cI was so proud of them when they finished. They created a poem that has feeling and meaning, that moves people to think about health care inequities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t just tell people. They showed them what it feels like, and that\u2019s very different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the poem the class created in an informal, unrefined, free association exercise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Untitled<em>Access ethics<br>To help shape the future<br>What&#8217;s right is not always easy<br>Transparency, it requires to eliminate inconsistencies<br>We must understand other people&#8217;s experiences<br>Before change can occur<br>Frustration, kind of hopeless<br>Can&#8217;t do anything about it<br>The need for health care reform is prominent<br>WE DEMAND<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-class-poem-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25407\" style=\"width:600px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-class-poem-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/Iyer-class-poem-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking hard into the mirror&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Iyer\u2019s final assignment for students was to write an individual poem that related to nuclear weapon waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For senior Bethlehem Obssie, this was her first time both studying the Hanford Site and writing a poem. \u201cLearning about Hanford was incredibly shocking,\u201d she said. \u201cI have lived in Washington my whole life, and I never, not once, heard about this nuclear waste site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The site also sparked a lot of self-reflection for Obssie. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe this was something I didn\u2019t know about,\u201d she said. \u201cIt made me want to become more aware of the environment and also my own, sometimes damaging, contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She decided to write her poem from her own viewpoint and from that of the United States of America. \u201cI wanted to speak for me and my country, so everything was written as You and I,\u201d she explained. \u201cEveryone in the United States is guilty of polluting the environment to some extent, myself included. We may not be developing nuclear bombs, but we all leave a carbon footprint. It\u2019s easy to point fingers, but what\u2019s hard is acknowledging your own faults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope that my poem encourages people to take some accountability and also inspires them to reflect and think about how they can be better moving forward,\u201d she said. \u201cI grew up Christian so I made it a sinner\u2019s prayer. We \u2014 me and my country \u2014 have done so much harm that there is no atonement. Likely for the rest of humanity, the contamination at Hanford will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A sinner\u2019s hymn<br>Are You and I desensitized?<br>They recall.<br>Stumbling upon a land, We crowned Ourselves good.<br>But, You and I marginalized and terrorized.<br>We built bombs.<br>We caused irrevocable harm.<br>We contaminated willfully.<br>Destroyed their land.<br>The River narrates Our story.<br>The soil Our DNA.<br>We can\u2019t run from who We are,<br>Sinners.<br>Who displaced and created endless waste,<br>For Us to triumph? And remain good?<br>It will take thousands of years,<br>To atone for what We did.<br>Even then,<br>We never will.<br>The land remembers Us.<br>Generations can pass.<br>They\u2019ll never forget what We did.<br>Are we still desensitized?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From class conversations to imagining radical acts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iyer\u2019s class submitted 25 poems to the Hot Poetry contest, and both Iyer and Cram are pleased with the deep conversations the project inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to see young people engage with cleanup in this moving and powerful way,\u201d Cram said. \u201cMost people, especially on the west side of the state, have never heard of Hanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese poems can change that in a small way. Just talking about Hanford \u2014 telling others that the site exists \u2014is a radical and important act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Sunita Iyer\u2019s health policy class create poems to advocate for the safe cleanup of Hanford \u2014 the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,229,197,204],"tags":[],"school":[417,418,419,420,421],"class_list":["post-24419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-faculty","category-news-releases","category-students","school-school-of-business","school-school-of-educational-studies","school-school-of-ias","school-school-of-nhs","school-school-of-stem"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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