Showing posts with label Poetry Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry Foundation. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Effects of Counting

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      A recent visit to the Poetry Foundation website brought me to poems by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- and I counted sadly as I rea...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Opposites -- in Life as in Mathematics

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        Recently on NPR I heard an engaging interview with poet Kevin Young about his new collection Stones -- about memory and loss, and ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

If a Garden of Numbers . . .

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      In a summer email from math-poet-editor Carol Dorf ,  I first enjoyed "If a Garden of Numbers" -- a mingling of numbers with...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Use a phone App to find mathy poems

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A day late, Happy Birthday, E. E. Cummings   (b 14 October 1894, d 3 September 1962).      One of my favorite poetry sites is PoetryF...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The problem of time

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Californian Brenda Hillman is a poet whose work I like and admire.  In "Time Problem" she weaves prime numbers into a deft descri...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Be someone TO COUNT ON in 2015

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By any means of counting,  the number of incarcerated persons in the United States  is TOO LARGE and the proportion of prisoners wi...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Words that warn

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     Somewhere in a high school English class was a small topic that intrigues me still -- "questions that expect the answer 'yes...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Six Million

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       Sometimes numbers become labels for particular events.  When I was growing up, all of us knew 1492 as a label for the discovery of A...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Two-line poems -- Landays -- from Afghanistan

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Celebrate Activist Poetry -- At Nov. 1 Event BE THERE on November 1, 2013 at the Goethe-Intitut in Washington DC when poet and journal...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems of Translation

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     June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" ( found at PoetryFoundation.org ) uses numbers and mea...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Finding poems with "numbers"

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     Here's a quick and enjoyable activity:      Go to the website for The Poetry Foundation.    Browse for a bit and, when you have co...