Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

A Lecture on the Cube

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     Summer weeks spent teaching English to Romanian students have helped me to learn of several of the country's fine poets and to get ...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Be astonished -- National Poetry Day (British)

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Today I celebrate British partnership with Romanian poetry!      One of the internet treasures I have found is to Contemporary Literature ...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Arnold diffusion (and poets of Romania)

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     I have had the good fortune to attend two BIRS Math / Creative Writing workshops in Banff (most recently in January 2016) and one of t...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Remembering Nina Cassian

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Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) died last week in Manhattan.  Cassian was an outspoken poet whom I admired for her political...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Illness and Time -- Counting on

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One of life's special opportunities came to me ten years ago in Bucharest when I had the opportunity to meet poet Ileana Mălăncioiu an...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Mathematics in Romanian poetry

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     When I first visited Romania, I met Doru Radu, then a teacher of English at Scoala Generala "Andre Muresanu" in Deva. And Do...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

A square poem of Romania

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When I'm working on a poem that resists my efforts to express what I must say, sometimes I turn to the square for a rescue -- that is, I...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Romanian poets -- Cassian and Barbu

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Born in 1924, in Galati, Romania, Nina Cassian has published over fifty books -- besides poetry, she has works of fiction and books for chi...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Mathematics in poetry by Nichita Stanescu

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     Though formerly a math professor, my recent teaching has involved poetry--and I have been fortunate to spend several summer months at S...