Showing posts with label one. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2014

To love, in perfect syllables

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     While looking for Valentine verse with a math connection, I opened my copy of The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (Chancel...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Remembering Israel Lewis Schneider

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     On Monday, October 17, 2011, Israel Lewis Schneider (1924-2011) --  Silver Spring poet and mechanical engineer -- passed away .  I di...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Valley Voices

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With Richard Aston I share a love for science and logic, a love for poetry, and a love for the Susquehanna Valley.  His home is Wilkes-Bar...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Submit math-science poetry

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During the month of November, the online journal Talking Writing is seeking submission of poetry with connections to mathematics and the sc...
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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Counting on things -- a prose poem

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Russell Edson is one of the contemporary masters of the prose poem (a poem whose words are organized into paragraphs rather than stanzas)....
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Teaching Numbers

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Californian Gary Soto   writes for both children and adults and much of his work suits both groups.  Here from A Fire in My Hands (Houghton...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Can we trust numbers?

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Poet Lucia Perillo was honored Monday evening, December 13 at the Library of Congress -- as her collection Inseminating the Elephant won t...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Fib -- a form that gathers strength

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The "Fib" is a poetry form in which the numbers of syllables per line follow the pattern of the Fibonacci numbers.  (See also Apri...
Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Snowballs -- growing/shrinking lines

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Today's post explores poetic structures called snowballs  developed by the Oulipo (see also March 25 posting ) and known to many throug...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

A wedding song -- shaped by mathematics

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This posting includes a stanza from of "A Wedding on Earth" by Annie Finch .  In the poet's words: the poem has 11 stanzas wit...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Poets who Count

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For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the forme...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

The infinitude of ecstacy -- a la Israel Lewis

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Israel Lewis is the pen name of a polymath who earned his living as a scientist and is a writer in his retirement.  His webpage offers a ...