A math-poetry reading on January 11 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego -- organized by Gizem Karaali (an editor of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics) and Sue VanHattum (blogger at Math Mama Writes) -- has been featured in Evelyn Lamb's Scientific American blog.
Next year's JMM will be in Baltimore, MD during January 15-18, 2014.
There will be a poetry reading -- details will be posted here when they're available.
Sandra DeLozier Coleman is a retired mathematics professor who has for many years written poems that relate to math. Her poem (presented below) about the definition of a mathematical group was featured in the Scientific American blog. When DeLozier read the poem in San Diego, her introduction to it included these words: "I’m
poking a bit of fun at the futility of expecting a mathematician to
explain a math concept, as familiar to him as his name, in language even
a first week student will understand. Here the voice is of an Abstract
Algebra professor who is attempting to explain what makes a set a group
in rigorous rhyme!"