Showing posts with label Poet Laureate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poet Laureate. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025

Mathy Lines from the Poet Laureate

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     Born in New York City (1950) and of Asian heritage, poet Arthur Sze is the 25th US Poet Laureate (named on September 15, 2025) and th...
Friday, October 3, 2025

The Geometry of Verse

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     Here in the US, we have a new poet laureate ( announced by the Library of Congress on September 15, 2025 )   --  and this selected poet...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Equation after equation, smiling . . .

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       Today's news offers the exciting announcement that Tracy K. Smith is the new Poet Laureate of the United States.  I have not fo...
Friday, July 3, 2015

A Voice Meant to be Spoken

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     Last month the Library of Congress named a new poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera , a Californian and Mexican-American whose work often...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Excitement of Proving a Theorem

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Wow!  From first sighting, I have loved this description:        I prove a theorem and the house expands:        the windows jerk free to...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

The best of the many

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     Here I link to an article by David Alpaugh, "The New Math of Poetry," -- not brand-new, for it bears a date of February, 201...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle

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Detroit poet, Philip Levine , has been selected as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. Selected by the librarian of Congress (Jame...