Student Math-Poetry Contest -- submit by 2/2/2025

This message is for middle-school, high school and college students --

write a MATHY POEM, enter it in this contest:

American Mathematical Society

Math-Poetry Contest Announcement

This link leads to contest information and rules for submission.

The AMS Poetry Contest was first held in 2019; here's the Middle School winner: 

Celebrate AMS Award Winner Katherine Stange

      For me, postings on X (Twitter) are a frequent source of math-poetry news.  Today I found this:

This link leads to information about Stange's award.

Mathematician Katherine Stange is the daughter of a poet (Ken Stange) and their math-poetry connection is perhaps what led Kate to collect an anthology of mathy poems, available online at this link.   Here are the opening stanzas of one of the poems in Stange's anthology.  

Integrating . . .

      Integrating our fields of knowledge makes them more useful -- a view that has been correct for me, at least, and I am delighted when I find more people integrating poetry with mathematics.  This link leads to materials offered by the American Mathematical Society that connect with poetry.

     Several years ago an article of mine --  entitled "Everything Connects" -- was published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.  Below I offer a brief poem from the article (a Fib, with syllable counts equal to the first six Fibonacci numbers).  Here is a link to a 2020 blog posting about the article and here is a link to the article.  The following Fib is included in the article: