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 Pennsylvania. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2016

The Bloomsburg Fair -- with theorems and lies . . .

Along the north branch of the Susquehanna River in east-central Pennsylvania lies the town of Bloomsburg -- known for Bloomsburg Univer...

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Things to Count On

Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. Born in 1912, she has been gone for several years now -- and tomorrow my sons and I will travel to In...

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Divided selves, some of them savvy

For social connections, it is desirable not to be pegged as a member of an outcast group. And thus a mathematician is likely to have a...

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Forecasting snow and poetry

Snowbound is that other world in which no schedules sit and no ambitions flare to interrupt the bluest sky and whitest field and coldest ...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Counting Groundhogs

I grew up in a town about 25 miles from Punxsutawney, PA -- and Groundhog Day on February 2 was local-news only. This was the quiet t...

Monday, June 14, 2010

Girls and Mathematics

In Indiana, Pennsylvania, my senior high school advanced math teacher was Laura Church--a Barnard College graduate and a flamboyant silver-h...

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