Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label prose poem. Show all posts

Showing posts with label prose poem. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Algebra (sort of) in a short story

Tomorrow I head to Baltimore for the BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference. Explore the conference program at this link . Would love to see you...

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Imagine a Fractal

California poet Carol Dorf is also a math teacher and is poetry editor of the online journal TalkingWriting . In the most recent issue of...

Friday, March 23, 2012

Round

Round by Russell Edson Where there is no shape there is round. Round has no shape; no more than a raindrop or a human tear ...

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Counting on things -- a prose poem

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

Friday, May 13, 2011

Would rationalists wear sombreros?

This final section of "Six Significant Landscapes," by attorney and insurance executive (and poet) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), p...

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Giraffe -- novel (& prose poem) by May Swenson

Poet and playright May Swenson (1913-89) was born in Utah to Mormon parents and grew up in a home in which Swedish was the primary language...

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