As I have mentioned previously, April is National Poetry Month and also Mathematics Awareness Month -- and the mathematical focus is "Mathematics of Sustainability." To try to connect these April celebrations, I went to the website www.Poets.org and searched for a poem containing the word "sustainability." There I found "Patience" by Kay Ryan which contains these lines:
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable —
a place with
its own harvests.
Please go here to Poets.org to read Ryan's entire poem.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Friday, August 10, 2012
Summing thin slices
This poem by recent (2008-2010) poet laureate Kay Ryan at first made me think of calculus, of integration, summing all the thin slices to find the area under a curve. And then the poem moved me on.
Labels:
calculus,
integration,
Kay Ryan,
NPR,
poetry,
poetry games,
slice,
sum,
train
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