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"Lullaby for the Mathematician"
From the March 1994 issue ofPoetry, this thoughtful poem by Pennsylvania poet and professor Robert Bernard Hass:
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Short lines that GROW . . .
With line-lengths whose syllable-counts follow the Fibonacci numbers, a writer has the opportunity to develop a gradually expanding thought. Here are the opening lines of a Fibonacci poem by...
View ArticleRemembering Wendell Berry
In today's news I learned of the recent death of award-winning author Wendell Berry(1934–2026). In more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Berry explored the notion of living a...
View ArticleWalking to find a solution . . .
Exploring Facebook recenty I came across Motive for Metaphor -- a site with this introduction:Motive for Metaphor offers poetical expressions for sharing & is inspired by a Wallace Stevens...
View ArticleSpread the love of MATH -- with POEMS
For me, writing is part of my thinking process -- my fingers join my brain in formulating thoughts. And, if the current day is not one that inspires my creativity, then reading the creative work...
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Mathematics and Cats
An interesting, somewhat poetic quote:Found (along with lots more) at Quote Investigator website: Quote Origin: Mathematics Is the Simple Bit. It’s the Stuff We Can Understand. It’s Cats That Are...
View ArticleA poetic view of Arithmetic
Recently I found -- and have been musing over -- this poetic quote by poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967):Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the...
View ArticleIs each of us a MATH PERSON?
This article"Everybody is a Math Person . . ." by writer and teacher Larry Ferlazzo explores the nature of math anxiety and also the meanings of the terms: "math person" and "poetry person." Ferlazzo...
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Reasons and Proofs -- in a Poem
This week I have been enjoying family vacation time but this evening I have a moment to share a mathy poem that I found recently on Facebook -- "THE WORLD I LIVE IN" -- lines by one of my favorite...
View ArticleBrowsing the Web -- Finding Mathy Poems
Recently I came across this website -- 30 Memorable Mathematics Poems - Tiny Poetry -- and I enjoyed browsing its poems. The website included the following comment:These poems are...
View ArticleExploring the truth -- with a FIB!
Gregory Coxson, recently retired faculty member at the US Naval Academy's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department -- and a long-time friend, enjoys discovering and sharing mathy poems --...
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Counting , , ,
Here are the opening stanzas of a thoughtful poem by mathematician-writer Marian Christie:Christie's complete poem is available here on her website and previous inclusions of her work in this blog may...
View ArticleShort word problems: do the math
Raymond Nat Turner is the poet-in-residence for Black Agenda Report (a website of news, commentary, and analysis from the black left) -- and I have found and been moved by his mathy poem of...
View ArticleYouTube Video Celebrates Omar Khayyam
Enjoy a 1-minute video celebrating the MATH and POETRY of Omar Khayyam This Mathematician Solved Impossible Equations While Writing Poetry -- YouTube This blog posting...
View ArticleCross BRIDGES ... 2026 Bridges Galway Conference
Each year an international BRIDGES Conference celebrates the connections between mathematics and the arts -- featuring connections with music, literature, visual art, theater . . . Here is a link...
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Sadness -- Math-Poet Emily Grosholz has passed . . .
I have been saddened to learn of the death, early in May, of philosopher, writer, and professor at Penn State University -- and a frequent contributor to this blog -- Emily Rolfe Grosholz....
View ArticleLet's Play Math -- and double Pi!
A website that I enjoy visiting and one that many current math teachers could enjoy visiting often is Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math – Helping families to learn and enjoy math together.Learn more...
View ArticleCelebrate Juneteenth!
This month, America celebrates its Juneteenth, commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans was informed they were free. Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in...
View ArticleScience in Meter and Verse (from Sci. Amer.)
Combining math and parenting . .. It delights me that Scientific American includes science-related poetry -- and when my monthly issue arrives I turn first to the monthly poem. Here are the...
View ArticleSmall Child, Loud Noise
Sent to me by poet Jacqueline Lapidus, I have this slightly mathy poem: The Screaming Toddler RatioThe volume of the voice is in inverse proportion to the size of the speaker/screamer. When I...
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