Showing posts with label number. Show all posts
Showing posts with label number. Show all posts
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Visual poems with numbers

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     I have a good friend who does not care for the sorts of poetry that are written today.  When I asked what he likes he cited " When...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Primes and a paradox

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       Canadian poet Alice Major has loved and admired science and mathematics since girlhood and this background brings to her mathy poems...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Uncertainty . . .

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     Sometimes we find things of great value when we are looking for something else -- in fact, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has sai...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Multiplied by Rain

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     There are many mathematical terms that are used in daily life -- not only multiplied and divided and negative but also closure and ...
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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Friday, November 14, 2014

Imaginary Number

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Last week (on November 6) I was invited to read some of my poems at the River Poets reading in Bloomsburg, PA ( where I lived and taught ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

My best dream is floating . . .

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     Today I want to urge you to visit several sites in addition to my blog.  For example, there is the recent announcement of 2014 Fields M...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Looking back . . .

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I have been visiting my hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania and not finding time to complete a new post -- and so I have looked back.  On July...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Of all geometries, feathery is best . . .

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The title for this post comes from Twinzilla ( The Word Works , 2014), by Charleston poet Barbara Hagerty .  The title character of this co...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Three thousand, and two

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Here is a small poem richly vivid with the contrasts of opposites:                  beside a stone three                  thousand years ...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Squirrel Arithmetic

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     My maternal grandfather, James Edgar Black (1871-1931) was a western Pennsylvanian, a carpenter, and a man I never knew.  But Ed, one o...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Math rap

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     Harry Baker is a Slam Champion who studies Maths at Bristol University, UK -- and his poetry sometimes features math, often having fu...
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, January 3, 2014

Count what counts

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When I visited Iceland last month, I looked in the bookstores of Reykjavik for bilingual (Icelandic-English) poetry collections; I found non...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

The angel of numbers . . .

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This poem by Hanns Cibulka (1920 - 2004) -- translated from the German by Ewald Osers -- is collected in the anthology, Strange Attractors...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Measuring Winter

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Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was an English composer, physician, and poet.   I found this poem at poetryfoundation.org . Now Winter Nights ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

13 lads of Christmas

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     In addition to waterfalls and geysers and the Aurora, Iceland has outstanding museums.  On the morning of December 10, I visited the Na...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Conversational mathematics

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In recent weeks I have been experimenting with poems that use mathematical terminology, wondering whether -- since there are readers who are...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Neruda speaks of numeration

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The collection, Late and Posthumous Poems, 1968-1974 (Grove Press, 1988) by Chilean Nobelist Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) offers to readers a ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Two-line poems -- Landays -- from Afghanistan

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Celebrate Activist Poetry -- At Nov. 1 Event BE THERE on November 1, 2013 at the Goethe-Intitut in Washington DC when poet and journal...