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/ .

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

To add two and two

Today I call attention again (as in my post for 6 January, 2015 ) to the extensive Science-Poetry collection edited by Norman Hugh R...

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Poetry as Pure Mathematics

A recent email from Portuguese mathematician-poet F J "Francisco" Craveiro de Carvalho brought a 40-year-old stanza to my attent...

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Amounting to Something

From the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Poet Lore , a poem by David Wagoner about the arithmetic of expectations: Amounting to Something ...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A Prayer of Numbers

Whether our language is music or mathematics, computer code or cookery -- as we learn to love the language and treat it with good car...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A puzzle with a partial solution

When we have experiences near to each other, we may try to connect them. We form superstitions. "Bad things come in threes"...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Poets who Count

For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the forme...

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