I have signed up for a Google email service, "Google Alert" which sends to my g-mail address links to items found in Google searching that contain the words "poetry" and "mathematics". Recently such an email alerted me to a sharing by a psychiatrist who writes poetry about his medical experiences.
Richard Berlin, MD, has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Tender Fences. At this link, he shared the poem "Black Momma Math", by Kimberly Jae who is an award-winning poet, ranked among the top 30 slam poets in the world in 2018. The poem is also available here at the Poetry Foundation website. I offer its opening stanzas below.
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