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 Marion Deutsche Cohen. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Marion Deutsche Cohen. Show all posts

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Genius grant for Math-Woman

Mathematician Lauren K. Williams (PhD ’05 MIT, currently Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University) has won a 2025 MacArthur Fell...

Friday, November 16, 2018

A poet that makes math personal

Mathematician-poet Marion Cohen has a new poetry collection just out -- The Project of Being Alive . Here is a sample from that colle...

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Loving the difference quotient ... and more ...

From Philadelphia poet-mathematician, Marion Cohen , a new collection -- Closer to Dying (Word Tech, 2016). When I received the book...

Sunday, February 17, 2013

MathWoman Limericks

My desk dictionary describes a limerick as a nonsense poem; my own experience has found these five-line rhymes to be more often bawdy than n...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 2

P ublished a century later than William Benjamin Smith's "The Merman and the Seraph" (see April 14 posting ) we have Crossing ...

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