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 Theodore Roethke. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Theodore Roethke. Show all posts

Monday, April 17, 2023

Running . . . Again . . .

Today one of my friends from graduate-school days in Oklahoma is running in the Boston Marathon and, while following her progress on m...

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Poem-in-your-Pocket Day -- April 29, 2022

The following stanza by award-winning children's author, Beatrice Schenk de Regniers , (1914-2000), has led to an annual celebr...

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

After Waking, Running

Today's posting is a villanelle about running -- and it is was written as a response to Theodore Roethke's villanelle, "Th...

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Waking -- to mathematics, to poetry

Bridges-Math-Arts-Conferences -- Places to make connections! Yesterday I posted a bit of information about POETRY at the 2018 Bridges Co...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Poetry in a math text

In the 1980s, all students at Bloomsburg University were required to take at least one mathematics course and I worked with colleagues...

Sunday, October 30, 2011

What can 7 objects say? Or 100?

A friend, a high school art teacher, had one of her students paint a portrait of her -- not of her bodily self but a still life of the...

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