Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label Lilly Ledbetter. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Lilly Ledbetter. Show all posts

Friday, March 10, 2017

Circle of Silence -- and sexual harassment

Colonel Stacey K. Vargas is a professor of Physics at the Virginia Military Institut e. I found her poem -- with its vicious circles...

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Women occupy mathematics

Poems thrive on imagery created from specific (rather than vague) details -- and numbers and other math terms are very specific! Below...

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The culture for women in math and the sciences

Perhaps the phrase "ordinary" women scientists is an oxymoron -- but it should not be. Women should be free to populate the full...

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Celebrating Ada Lovelace

Recently I have purchased the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupying the Workplace (edited by Caroline Wright, M.L. Lyo...

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