Showing posts with label Marian Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marian Christie. Show all posts
Friday, February 23, 2024

Shaping poems with Pascal's Triangle

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      One of my favorite websites to visit is " Poetry and Mathematics " -- a blog from poet Marian Christie .  Today I focus on h...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Geometry in Poetry

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      Poet Marian Christie 's blog, Poetry and Mathematics -- found at https://marianchristiepoetry.net/ -- is a website I much enjoy ...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Shaping a Poem with Fibonacci numbers

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      One of my favorite websites to visit is this varied and thoughtful " Poetry and Mathematics "  collection of postings by Mar...
Monday, June 26, 2023

TRITINA -- a tiny SESTINA

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     In several previous postings ( collected at this link ) this blog has considered the poetry form called a sestina :     a sestina has 3...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Choosing the GEOMETRIC SHAPE of a poem

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      Structural constraints often govern the patterns we find in poetry -- well-known in poetic history are rhythm-and-rhyme patterns inclu...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Trying a Tritina

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      Writer and scholar Marian Christie (born in Zimbabwe and now in Kent, England) has had a long term interest in mathematics and poetry...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Poems with multiple choices of what to read . . .

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      When you pick up something to read -- a newspaper article, instructions for a new appliance, or a poem, or whatever  -- in what order ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Aelindromes -- and Pi

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     On Twitter, I have seen frequent posts by UK-based writer Anthony Etherin -- and, encouraged by mathy poet Marian Christie , I have fo...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A(nother) blog that celebrates Math-and-Poetry

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      Recently I have come to know another strong advocate of math-poetry connections.  Marian Christie ( read about her here ) has had long...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Mathematical Forms in Poetry . . .

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      During recent days, one of my special enjoyments has been finding time to read Marian Christie's blog -- a delightful collection o...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics -- new issue

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      Recently released, Issue 1 of Volume 11 (2021) of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics ;  in it Editors Mark Huber and Gizem Karaali ...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Varieties of SQUARE poems

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      When writing a poem on a topic about which I feel strongly, I often like to use constraints -- such as patterns of syllable-counts or ...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Another Fibonacci poem . . .

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     Through many years of the history of poetry, the sonnet has been a treasured form -- as poets strive carefully to match the iambic pent...
Monday, October 8, 2018

A special Fibonacci poem

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     A recent email from Marian Christie -- a nominally retired mathematics teacher from Aberdeenshire  -- alerted me to her very special s...