Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Art / Poem / Numbers (posted 7/14/13, then lost)

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     Recently I discovered a typo in my posting on July 14, 2013 of "Poem 25" by Kurt Schwitters.  My attempt to fix my typo led t...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

A sonnet with numbers

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     Sonnet: Now I see them     by Michael Palmer           Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.           There’s noise and laught...
Monday, April 25, 2016

"The Mathematician"

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     Here is a selection from "The Mathematician," a long poem -- found in its entirety in The Rumpus -- by  Oregon poet Carl Ada...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Math is Brewing . . .

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For one of my granddaughters who likes poems, I recently purchased If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand:  Poems about School by Ka...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Things to Count On

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Tomorrow is my mother's birthday.  Born in 1912, she has been gone for several years now -- and tomorrow my sons and I will travel to In...
Friday, June 5, 2015

A portrait of TB in numbers

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Poet Sarah Browning recently directed me to "Tuberculosis in Numbers," a fine poem by M. Brett Gaffney that appears in the latest...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The mathematician, she . . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 8, is the International Day of the Woman -- and I celebrate the day with mixed feelings.  YES, there are many women I ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

The numbers say it all . . .

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The title of my posting today, "The numbers say it all" comes from the final line of "After Leviticus," by Detroit poet ...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Poetry from the words of Lord Kelvin

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Do not imagine that mathematics  is hard and crabbed, and repulsive  to common sense.  It is merely the etherealization of common...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Poetry as Pure Mathematics

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A recent email from Portuguese mathematician-poet F J "Francisco" Craveiro de Carvalho brought a 40-year-old stanza to my attent...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A poetry album by Lucille Clifton

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March is Women's History Month and here, today, I celebrate by acknowledging a special woman, Lucille Clifton (1936-2010).  From 1979–...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Sociology of Numbers

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Robert Dawson is a mathematics professor at St Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- an active mathematician who complements his...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Six Million

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       Sometimes numbers become labels for particular events.  When I was growing up, all of us knew 1492 as a label for the discovery of A...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, you are a mathematician

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Thanks to Arturo Sangalli of the Writer's Union of Canada -- and fellow-participant in a recent Banff creativity conference --  who re...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Iceland -- poetry, stones

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British translator and editor David McDuff blogs at " Nordic Voices in Print " -- a site that he uses as "a way of making so...
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 ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

A poem with two numbers

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My friend Carol Ann Heckman has studied with Denise Levertov and feeds voraciously on her work.  For many years I have loved Levertov'...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Counting on numbers

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Alan Michael Parker 's anthologized and highly regarded poem "Family Math" begins in the style of a typical word-problem from...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Balancing an Equation

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     I grew up on a farm and spent my middle life in a small town and now live in a city.  A sort of immigrant.  A farm girl who became a p...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Mathematics and Mexican Food

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Recently Rattle posted a wonderful mathy poem by Diana Rosen entitled "Mathematics and Molé." Here's the first stanza:    ...