Showing posts with label Doru Radu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doru Radu. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2019

Poetry made visual with math terms

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     As the year ends I have been revisiting books not seen for a while -- and one of them is Concert for Violin and Loneliness  (Criteri...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Three Plus Four Divided by Seven

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     A good friend, Doru Radu -- with whom I have partnered to translate some Romanian poetry into English -- shares with me a love for the ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Continue to celebrate Szymborska

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If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you know that Polish Nobelist (1996) Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is one of my favorite poets...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Celebrating waves of light . . .

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     On October 8, Scotland's celebration of National Poetry Day had the theme "Light."  An online collection of themed poems...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Toward Infinity . . .

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     During summer teaching opportunities a dozen or more years ago in Deva, Romania I met Doru Radu who taught English there -- and our mut...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Illness and Time -- Counting on

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One of life's special opportunities came to me ten years ago in Bucharest when I had the opportunity to meet poet Ileana Mălăncioiu an...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Mathematics in Romanian poetry

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     When I first visited Romania, I met Doru Radu, then a teacher of English at Scoala Generala "Andre Muresanu" in Deva. And Do...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Mathematics in poetry by Nichita Stanescu

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     Though formerly a math professor, my recent teaching has involved poetry--and I have been fortunate to spend several summer months at S...