Showing posts with label found poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label found poem. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2015

A subtraction problem

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Let's solve this subtraction problem:                     Women do the job             minus    the recognition.                  ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

The answer is NO

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This past weekend I have much enjoyed reading Mathematics:  a novel   by Jacques Roubaud   (Dalkey Archive Press, reprint 2010, translated f...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sex, Maths, and the Brain

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I found this poetry in an abstract (with a link posted at "Women in Maths" on Facebook ) for a lecture by Professor Gina Rippon e...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Celebrating angles and rainbows . . .

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                              C          E        L        E        B   M A R R I A G E        A     A        T     Y     ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Found poetry -- Mary Cartwright

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Recently I have been reading about mathematician Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) and working to develop a poem about her -- relying on a fine a...
Friday, June 7, 2013

A Man-Made Universe and "found" poems

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 Some poems are found rather than crafted. It's such fun -- can happen to anyone --  to be reading along and find a poem.       T...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

A poem from an airline call center

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     Poet Laura LeHew offers us " The New Math "-- a "found" poem that features conversations and calculations from cal...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Found in Flatland

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Over the years I have shared with friends and students my copy of Edwin Abbott 's Flatland (first published in England in 1884) and, al...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Celebrate Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

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Martin Gardner described his relationship to poetry as that of "occasional versifier" -- he is the author, for example, of:    ...