Squaring the Circle
Reminding us of the ancient unsolvable problem that so many attempted, the July/August 2014 issue of Poetry Magazine contains "Squaring the Circle," a poem by Philip Fried. Here are the opening lines;...
View ArticleNarrated by a mathematician
Recently translated by Adam Morris, the novel With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House, 2014) by Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) is narrated by a mathematician-poet. That fact of narration is what...
View ArticleMy best dream is floating . . .
Today I want to urge you to visit several sites in addition to my blog. For example, there is the recent announcement of 2014 Fields Medal (equivalent to a Nobel prize) winners -- the four...
View ArticlePoetry in Math Journals
The Mathematical Intelligencer (publisher of the poem by Gizem Karaali given below) and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (an online, open-access journal edited by Mark Huber and Gizem...
View ArticleChanging colors, counting syllables
Changing Colorsby JoAnne GrowneyBlueyoyo --awkwardlystopping-starting,rising-plummeting,seeking self-control. Please,mother-friend-lover-child, don'tpull string. Let me collect myself.I lift myself...
View ArticleGrandma Got STEM
It was my good fortune last weekend to meet the sister-in-law of one of my neighbors, mathematician and Harvey Mudd professor, Rachel Levy. Levy is also a blogger and her postings in Grandma Got...
View ArticleMathy Poetry from Bridges 2014
This year's math-arts conference, Bridges 2014, was in Korea. And a dozen of us who write poetry-with-mathematics -- unable to attend in person -- worked with coordinator Sarah Glaz to offer (on...
View ArticleJan - Aug, 2014 -- titles, dates of posts
Scroll down to find titles and dates of posts in 2014. At the bottom is a links to lists of posts through 2013 and 2012and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this blog was begun. This...
View ArticleMathy poems via e-mail
Publishing a blog about poetry and mathematics brings me new connections -- it is not unusual for a day to begin with an email from another poetry-math enthusiast who wants to share a link or a poem....
View ArticleHypertext poetry
We computer-screen readers all know hypertext; when we read along in Wikipedia or some other online document and come across an underlined term whose font color is light blue -- at such a point we...
View ArticleHailstone numbers shape a poem
One of my favorite mathy poets is Halifax mathematician Robert Dawson -- his work is complex and inventive, and fun to puzzle over. Dawson's webpage at St Mary's University lists his mathematical...
View ArticleRemembering Lee Lorch
Lee Lorch was a mathematician known for his social activism on behalf of black Americans as well as for his mathematics. He died in February of this year in Toronto, at age 98. A life-long...
View ArticleMarching for Climate
Today I want to call attention to the growing global concern about climate change accentuated by the United Nations Climate Summit that opens September 23. Tomorrow (September 21) I will travel on...
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Clearing the Air with a Poem
Every poem has a climate -- a collection of emotional tones that overlay and underlay its words. Today -- as the U.N. meets in NY to discuss the future climate of our planet -- I have been looking...
View ArticleJournal of Math in the Arts features Poetry
A special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts entitled "Poetry and Mathematics" is now available online at this link. An introduction by guest editor Sarah Glaz is available (for free...
View ArticleJanuary - September -- Titles, dates of posts
Scroll down to find titles and dates of posts in 2014. At the bottom is a links to lists of posts through 2013 and 2012and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this blog was begun. This...
View ArticleCan poetry change the climate for frogs?
Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poems. Go here for information about their Eighth Annual Poetry...
View ArticleLove Physics
It turns out that one of the disadvantages of a long-term blog with lots of worthy material is that sometimes I lose track of fine work that I want to post. And sometimes I find it again. This...
View ArticleTaken out of context . . .
Sometimes good lines fit so well into their poems that their individual merits go unrecognized. And then, taken out of context, they can lead lives of their own. Here is a start for a collection of...
View ArticlePoetry Reading 1-11-15 at JMM in San Antonio
You are invited to a poetry reading sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematicsat the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)Gonzalez Convention Center Room 205 San Antonio, TexasSunday,...
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