Showing posts with label Myra Sklarew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myra Sklarew. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Mathy Poets -- Gone but Alive in our Memories

     In a recent NYTimes article I have learned of the passing of poet-mathematician Jacques Robaud (1932-2024) who was a key figure in the development of OULIPO (an organization that has explored writing using a variety of constraints).  Here is a link to Robaud's poem "Amsterdam Street."

     Today's Washington Post offers the obituary poet and scientist Myra Sklarew (1934-2024).  Sklarew  was a DC resident and activist -- and is featured in these past postings in this blog.


Monday, September 30, 2013

Splendid Wake project

On Wednesday, September 25, more than one hundred poets met at the George Washington University Gelman Library's Special Collection Conference Room to show support for the Splendid Wake project -- an effort to document poetry in the Washington, DC area from 1900 forward. Initiated more than a year ago by Myra Sklarew and Elisavietta Ritchie, the project will honor poets associated with our nation's capital.  Interested persons are invited to visit the project's main page and to consider a submission -- biographies and information about poetry projects of all sorts (journals, reading series, websites, and so on).  Management of the project is being coordinated by GW Special Collections Librarian Jennifer King (jenking @ gwu.edu).
     In celebration of this project, here is "Monuments," a sestina (a poetic form involving permutations of the line-end-words) by Myra Sklarew that honors some of DC's past poets.