Showing posts with label Jane Hirshfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Hirshfield. Show all posts
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Poets for Science -- Poetry Exhibit

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     In 2017 poet Jane Hirschfeld curated an exhibit entitled "Poets for Science" .  It was featured in Washington, DC on Earth Da...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Keeping Track -- poetry with numbers

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      The very fine poetry of Jane Hirshfield has been featured in several earlier blog postings .  And below, again -- with some lines fro...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Mathematics -- something useful ... or beautiful ...

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     I offer a sample below from a poem by Jane Hirshfield entitled "Mathematics" and invite you to go here to read the entire poe...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Zero plus anything is . . .

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     Poet Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, essayist and translator  whose work and I admire and enjoy .  In her collections I have...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Counting What's Left

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     Recently at the 2018 Split This Rock Poetry Festival , I purchased a copy of ghost fishing:  An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited b...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Poetry and Science -- Allies in Discovery

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     Poet Jane Hirshfield read onstage as part of the March for Science in Washington, DC on Saturday April 22.   Science and poetry both a...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Multiplied by Rain

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     There are many mathematical terms that are used in daily life -- not only multiplied and divided and negative but also closure and ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

"My Proteins"

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The mysteries of science are sometimes explored in poems and, in this vein, I was delighted to find "My Proteins" by Jane Hirshfie...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The important 1 (multiplicative identity)

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On this day 12/12/12, I have heard much media discussion concerning coincidences of number .  My own thoughts continue to examine the multi...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Mathematics, like poetry, is ART

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Doing mathematics is often misunderstood as primarily computation--an error that seems equivalent to seeing poetry writing as primarily a sp...