Showing posts with label Wislawa Szymborska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wislawa Szymborska. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Celebrate Pi

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     Soon it will be Pi-Day (3.14) and this year I again call your attention to a poem by one of my long-time favorite poets -- the poem &qu...
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Friday, September 8, 2023

Is reading POETRY like reading MATHEMATICS?

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Back in June I found an interesting article online by USAToday Entertainment Editor Pamela Avila   that raises questions about how to read p...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Poets for Science -- Poetry Exhibit

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     In 2017 poet Jane Hirschfeld curated an exhibit entitled "Poets for Science" .  It was featured in Washington, DC on Earth Da...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Learning from Poetry -- "The Courtesy of the Blind"

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      Can difficulty with understanding mathematics be compared with physical blindness -- a difficulty that is biological rather than chose...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Three Odd Words

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     I love the mental jolt I get when a math word is used with a non-math meaning -- suddenly some playful back-and-forth happens in my hea...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Three Plus Four Divided by Seven

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     A good friend, Doru Radu -- with whom I have partnered to translate some Romanian poetry into English -- shares with me a love for the ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Continue to celebrate Szymborska

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If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you know that Polish Nobelist (1996) Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is one of my favorite poets...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Which hat? (from Slovenia)

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     For a long time I have highly valued the work of Eastern European poets -- including Wislawa Szymborska , Miroslav Holub , Nichita Stan...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Out of 100 -- in the Klondike Gold Rush

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Adding to my recent post on 19 August I note that OEDILF is seeking submissions.     Join the project :  submit limerick definitions of...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Counting the seconds . . .

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During these difficult days of fear and explosions -- in Boston and West, Texas and where next? -- I have turned to my copy of View with a G...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pipher -- Math experiments, Pi

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     'Tis a favorite project of mine      A new value of pi to assign.           I would fix it at 3           For it's sim...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Poems with Numbers

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      Hats off to the organizers and presenters at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival held in DC this past weekend.  Great poets, gr...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Universal and Particular -- Szymborska

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Like Yves Bonnefoy ( 21 February 2012 posting), Wislawa Szymborska  ( who died on  1 February 2012 ) was born in 1923.  Like him she was co...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Szymborska (1923-2012) on Statistics

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Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)  won the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature; I am saddened by her death -- yesterday, February 1, ...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Against Intuition

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One of my favorite poets (mentioned previously for her poem, "Pi" in my  September 6 posting ) is the Polish Nobelist (1996) Wisla...
Monday, September 6, 2010

More of Pi in Poetry

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Recording artist Kate Bush has written a song entitled “Pi” which includes some of π's digits in the lyrics . Likewise, Polish Nobelist ...