Showing posts with label Stephanie Strickland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephanie Strickland. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Which order is best -- or should I try them all?

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This posting celebrates a new poetry collection --  Ringing the Changes by Stephanie Strickland   ( Counterpath , 2020). This new c...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Speaking, understanding . . . where is truth?

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     A review in the Washington Post of a new book about Oscar Wilde  opens with this quote: "Man is least himself when he talks in h...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Talking-Writing offers Math Poems

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     In recent weeks, the online journal Talking-Writing has been featuring math poems and last Monday they posted my " Skagway Study ...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Hypertext poetry

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     We computer-screen readers all know hypertext; when we read along in Wikipedia or some other online document and come across an underl...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Mathematicians are not free to say . . .

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The poetry of a mathematician is constrained by the definitions she knows from mathematics.  Even though all but one of the prime integers i...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

A Vector Space Poem

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     As a Columbia undergraduate, media artist Millie Niss (1973-2009) majored in mathematics and was enrolled in a math PhD program at Bro...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Forecasting snow and poetry

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Snowbound is that other world in which no schedules sit and no ambitions flare to interrupt the bluest sky and whitest field and coldest ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Emily Dickinson

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     Although I do not consider any of Emily Dickinson's poems "mathematical," I find that she does not shy from using the te...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Number gives things a body . . .

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Poet Stephanie Strickland majored in mathematics as an undergraduate and she uses mathematical imagery freely in her work  -- in a career t...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Counting for Freedom -- the Amistad trials

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     Josiah Willard Gibbs (Jr, 1839 – 1903) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, a...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Poetry generators

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Blogger  edde addad  had an undergraduate major in creative writing -- and later earned a PhD in computer science.  He has written about and...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Electronic poetry -- Stephanie Strickland

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     Computers offer new opportunities for poetry -- permitting new types of poems.  Animated perhaps, or hypertext, or vast manuscripts of...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Digital poetry -- Stephanie Strickland et al

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Stephanie Strickland writes with mastery of numbers, as we see in her poem below.  But numbers are only the beginning of her work.  A direc...