Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2024

Haiku in Math Class

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       One of my recent discoveries of math-poetry is in the activities of  Hofstra University professor Johanna Franklin ,   Franklin asks ...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Poetry on the Side . . .

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     My friend Gregory Coxson (engineering professor at the US Naval Academy ) is an explorer of new ideas and I enjoy his frequent emails t...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

February -- National Haiku-writing Month

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     Whether to satisfy particular constraints when writing a poem is an idea that is very important to poets.  Some think that following st...
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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Every Seventeen Years . . .

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Millions of Brood X 17-year cicadas have recently emerged in the Washington, DC area and they are the subjects of laughter, fear, recipes, a...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Valentine Haiku

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     Since 2011 February has been National Haiku Writing Month ( NaHaiWriMo) ; serious celebration of this event requires writing a Haiku ea...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Seeking wisdom in mathematical Haiku

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 During these difficult pre-election coronavirus days I have been turning to poetry, and especially favoring -- for their brevity -- Haiku. ...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Haiku Poetry Day -- coming soon!

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     My internet explorations find celebrations of Haiku Poetry Day described for both April 17 and April 18    -- my own recommendation is...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

As in mathematics--a lot in a few words--in Haiku

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     Recently on a visit to the website Singapore Math I found dozens of "mathematical" Haiku -- and I offer several below.   Sti...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Math in 17 Syllables

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     Counting syllables is an aspect of poetry that often interests math-people.  -- and when Haiku are composed in English, these three-lin...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Linking mathematics to the rest . . .

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Today my obtuse anger is rightly directed toward G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) and to the followers who have accepted his view --  in his 1...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

A number tells the story -- in these Haiku

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     One of my neighbors, Carol, has been cleaning out bookshelves and offered me her old copy of Gary Snyder's collection,  The Back Co...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

"The Giraffe" -- a poem for my pocket

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     I've found the poem I want to carry in my pocket (and in my head) on " Poem in Your Pocket Day " -- coming soon on April ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Celebrate Math Women

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     March is Women's History Month and, although this year's theme focuses on women in public service and government , my own thou...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Add and subtract to get . . . a minimalist poem

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Thinking today of poet Bob Grumman (1941-2015) with special gratitude for the way he expanded my poetic horizons.  For example, he introduc...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A mathy Haiku

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Found at the froth magazine website, this Haiku by Christopher Daniel Wallbank . Mathematics I, mathematics, One plus root five over 2...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Can poetry change the climate for frogs?

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      Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poem...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Error Message Haiku

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Found at Komplexify.com , a variety of (often-amusing) mathematical verses -- including a collection of Error Message Haiku .  Approaching a...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Perfect circle, Haiku

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          Perfect circle round                the moon           In the center of the sky by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), from Book of Ha...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Another 17-word Haiku

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If a poet uses only one-syllable words, the resulting Haiku is a bit longer than usual -- as in this Haiku in which the word lengths also fo...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Haiku to Mars -- select and vote

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     Each of us may now (July 15 - 29) vote for one of the thousands of Haiku submitted to NASA's "Haiku for Mars" contest. T...