When seeking to draft a poem quickly, it is useful to have some sort of pattern to follow -- a pattern helping to dictate word choice. This morning, upon discovering Google's online celebration of the 101st birthday of inventor and actress Hedy Lamarr, I have wanted to join the commemoration with a poem. A verse pattern rather often used by hasty math writers is the limerick (see links below) -- and I have today constructed this pair of limericks to praise Lamarr.
May a beautiful actress present
Skills beyond stage and screen content?
Yes! Hedy Lamarr
Excelled as a star,
And had also talent to invent!
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Poetry-math images; Expectation
Search engines are very useful in my search for mathy poets and poems. Recently I have noticed that a link to images has been offered prior to the verbal links when I have queried Google using "mathematics poetry." Some of the visuals are quotations, some are book-covers, some are poems. When you have time, explore and enjoy!
Finding more via Google that I expected connected me with an old poem. Here, unearthed recently, is "Expectation" -- some lines from the 1980s, when I was beginning to write poems.
Expectation
teach you to expect two teach you to expect one
to be more than one. to be the sum of its parts.
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Friday, November 21, 2014
The Math Lady Sings
One of my daily emails results from a Google Alert -- which I have set up to let me know of new web-postings (or old information newly accessed) that contain the terms "mathematics" and "poetry." (Another online delight comes when I Google "mathematics poetry" (or "math poetry") and browse the images that occur at the top of the list that Google offers. What fun!)
It is through a Google Alert notification that I learned of the poetry book It Ain't Over Till the Math Lady Sings by Michelle Whitehurst Goosby (Trafford, 2014). This Math Lady was the subject of an article by Jennifer Calhoun in the Dotham Eagle (Dotham, AL) -- and Calhoun put me in in touch with the poet who graciously offered permission for me to present one of her poems here. Goosby is a teacher and the poem poses a number puzzle for readers to solve.
It is through a Google Alert notification that I learned of the poetry book It Ain't Over Till the Math Lady Sings by Michelle Whitehurst Goosby (Trafford, 2014). This Math Lady was the subject of an article by Jennifer Calhoun in the Dotham Eagle (Dotham, AL) -- and Calhoun put me in in touch with the poet who graciously offered permission for me to present one of her poems here. Goosby is a teacher and the poem poses a number puzzle for readers to solve.
Five Naturals
Consecutively Odd
by Michelle Whitehurst Goosby
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