Initially I was drawn to a reading at The Writer's Center in Bethesda a couple of weeks ago because my neighbor, non-fiction writer and editor, Josh Tyree was reading from his London explorations, Vanishing Streets. But the two writer's who read with Tyree also were known to me and are remarkable:
Annie Finch, a poet I have known through WomPo, an online community (founded by her) that supports women-poets. Links to Annie's work in this blog -- which feature items that pay careful attention to syllable-counts -- are here, (for July 29, 1010) and here, (for June 27, 2015).
Gary Fincke, who was once almost a neighbor of mine -- I taught mathematics at Bloomsburg (PA) University and he taught and developed a creative writing program at nearby Susquehanna University -- and, before I moved south to the Washington, DC area, Gary and I knew each other through local literary events. It was great fun to hear Gary read not only poetry -- I offer a sample of his mathy work below -- but also short fiction; I came away from the November 11 reading with a copy of his new book of short stories, The Killer's Dog (Elixir Press, 2017), which is a very intriguing collection.
Fincke's poetry does not shy from mathematics and "The Butterfly Effect" was posted in this blog back on November 22, 2010. Here, from Fincke's collection, Blood Ties: Working-Class Poems (Time Being Press, 2002) is "Calculating Pi."
Calculating Pi by Gary Fincke
"Pi has been calculated to 480 million decimal points."
-- Newsweek
Printed out, this means six hundred miles of digits,
A paper carpet from Pittsburgh to Chicago
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
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