Poetic constraints such as syllable-counts and rhymes may seem at first glance to pose difficulties in constructing a poem BUT those of us who have explored using constraints very often find that meeting the imposed constraints guides us to new and creative thinking. At the July, 2025 Bridges Conference, Sarah Glaz and Lisa Lajeunesse offered a workshop that explored writing strategies derived from this ratio. (Here is a link to the abstract for the workshop -- and at that link you also can download a pdf of the complete paper.) Below I offer a couple of samples of their "golden ratio" poems.
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Following the syllable-count 1 6 1 8 0 3 3 9
Glaz and Lajeunesse have composed the following poems:
When you have time to explore the BRIDGES Archive, you will find a wonderful variety of math-poetry ideas.
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