A Love Story -- and a Hypotenuse

          The following poem -- "Fayetteville Junior High" by Delaware poet Fleda Brown -- uses mathematical terms in entertainingly describing a romance between two teachers:  

Remembering Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)

        Celebrated as both a musician and a mathematician was Tom Lehrer (Thomas Andrew Lehrer -- 1928-2025).  Lehrer recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s.  Many of his songs parodied popular musical forms, often with original melodies.

         The American Mathematical Society (AMS) offers a "mostly mathematical" appreciation of Lehrer -- on YouTube, posted here by mathematician Ken Ono.   Links to many videos by Ono are available here.  

A Path to Mathematics

        A very important source of poetry with links to mathematics is the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics -- an online journal -- edited by Mark Huber (Claremont McKenna College) and Gizem Karaali (Pomona College), and found at this link.  In the July 2026 issue of JHM, I found several fine poems, including the following one -- "My Journey to Mathematics" --  by Thao Thuan Vu Ho from Vietnam National University HCMC, University of Science.  This thoughtful poem explores the sometimes undermined but important aspects of mathematics.

Writing with AI . . .

      Found in Scientific American:  Poetry was humanity's first language technology.  AI is the next.  Read mire here --  and learn (from this February 2026 article) how poet Sasha Stiles connects poetry and AI.  Here are a few lines from the article.  

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is “one of our most ancient and enduring technologies,” a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir.