Showing posts with label circle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circle. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Truth in a circle . . .

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     In these days when the truth-value of so much of what I hear broadcast is difficult to assess I have been drawn back to a poem by Emily...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Circle of Silence -- and sexual harassment

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       Colonel Stacey K. Vargas is a professor of Physics at the Virginia Military Institut e.  I found her poem -- with its vicious circles...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A Fib (a perfect circle) -- and some math-po links

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    1      Not      1      one      2      circle     3      is perfect     5      yet the idea     8      of circle's useful ever...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Squaring the Circle -- from the POETRY App

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     One of my smart-phone delights is the App (available from PoetryFoundation.org)  that gives me a selection of poems on the go. (My post...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Inspired by Pi

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     Last year, a few days after Pi-Day, my email had a link (Thanks, Paul Geiger !) to an example of Pilish -- this one a circle poem by M...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Songs of mathematics . . .

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     Larry Lesser is a songwriter who uses lyrics for teaching as well as entertainment.  A varied sample of his creations for doing this a...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Reservation Mathematics

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Both a talented writer and an articulate conveyor of the culture of American Indians, Sherman Alexie is a Spokane / Coeur d’Alene Indian f...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

The power of eleven

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One of my recent poetry acquisition treasures is Measure for Measure:  An Anthology of Poetic Meters , edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra O...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Galileo in Florence

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Poetry found in the words of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands cont...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle

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 The sonnet is a song of the body as well as of the mind: 14 breaths     5 heartbeats each breath A few weeks ago I had the opportuni...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Three Greguerías

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From Portugal, from Francisco -- who emailed me the gift of these lines: Three Greguerías   by Rámon Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)   ...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Geometry of Winter, with Eagles

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A poetry-listening opportunity in the Washington, DC area : Poet Martin Dickinson will read from his new collection, My Concept of Time ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Poetry Reading 1-11-15 at JMM in San Antonio

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You are invited to a poetry reading  sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) ...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Squaring the Circle

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Reminding us of the ancient unsolvable problem that so many attempted, the July/August 2014 issue of Poetry Magazine contains "Squari...
Monday, April 21, 2014

A Cento from Arcadia

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Last week I had the enjoyable privilege of visiting with mathematician-poet Marion Cohen 's math-lit class, " Truth and Beauty &quo...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Homage to Euclid

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In my preceding post ( 20 March 2014 ) Katharine Merow's poem tells of the new geometries  developed with variations of Euclid's ...
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 ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Algebra cadabra

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It was my good fortune to meet Colette Inez back in the early 1990s when she was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. Then, as now, I ...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Mathematics of love . . .

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"Mathematics of Love" is the title poem of a collection by John Edwin Cohen (1941-2012), published in 2011 by Anaphora Literary P...