Once again, my mathematician-poet-friend Sarah Glaz has carefully organized a math-poetry reading -- this one to be held at the upcoming Bridges Math-Arts Conference, July 14-18, 2025 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Details concerning the exact time and location for the reading, scheduled for Thursday, July 17, will be announced here at this link.
Below I offer a sampling from the poets who will be reading at Eindhoven -- a CENTO that I have built by inclusion of a phrase from a poem by each of the poets registered for participation in Bridges 2025. (Information about the poets is found here at this website maintained by Sarah Glaz._
WE CELEBRATE MATHEMATICS
The power of a theorem lies
with a diagram of clockwise arrows
hovering high over the town,
while infinite time is waiting
and triple sixes strive
in-between our beginnings and ends.
Proof by example is extraordinary.
In the beginning, all is null,
Quaternions trampled on our norms,
spiroplots and tritangentless knots
spiraling toward the undefined.
If my garden of numbers grows
Into systems richer than can be described,
Space cannot reduce the magnitude of errors.
The oldest puzzle ever told
defines the notion of time.
The lines of the poem above have been selected -- in order -- from poems by these BRIDGES poets: Sarah Glaz, Madhur Anand, Marian Christie, Carol Dorf, Anthony Etherin, Susan Gerofsky, Lisa Lajeunesse, Dan May, Iggy McGovern, Doug Norton, Pedro Poitevin, Eveline Pye, Stephanie Strickland, Racheli Yovel, Kate Jones, Susana Sulic.
Information about these poets and about poetry at the BRIDGES Conference may be found at this website maintained by Sarah Glaz.
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Thank you, JoAnne! This is delightful, and so clever!
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