Celebrating Poetry at 2025 BRIDGES Conference

     A lavish and wonderful celebration of connections between mathematics and the arts is the annual international BRIDGES, Mathematics and the Arts Conference.  This year's conference took place last month (July, 2025 in Eindhoven, Netherlands) and one of its special events was a poetry reading.  

     Information about the poets and sample poems are available here at the website of Sarah Glaz (mathematician-poet and coordinator of the BRIDGES readings).  Below I have included one of these very special poems:

View no Fiery Night        by Marian Christie 

No
one
went to   
the tower
to vie with the foe.
Fretting, worn, we rove in night fog ––
the ring, the theft, the vow forgotten. Hovering high
over the town, the frightening wyvern, whirr of her winging interwoven with fire.

          First published in Christie's collection Sky, Earth, Other (Penteract Press, 2024).  Note that this is a Fibonacci poem -- with the syllable counts for the lines following the Fibonacci numbers.  ALSO, each line is formed from letters found in the English words for the Fibonacci numbers up to the line count -- one, one, two, three, five, eight, thirteen, twenty one; Christie uses the term "sequential lipogram" to describe this pattern.

For lots more wonderful stuff by Marian Christie, you may visit her blog, Poetry and Mathematics.  AND . . . her work has been featured previously in this blog; here is a link a list of those previous postings.

Anthologies of BRIDGES poems are available.  For information about these and about previous BRIDGES Poetry Readings, follow this link.   Go, read, and enjoy!  (And a BIG Thank You to Sarah Glaz for collecting and coordinating the BRIDGES poetry information!)