Showing posts with label sestina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sestina. Show all posts
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Using a Fano plane to create a poem

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     South Dakota mathematician Daniel May enjoys finding connections between his discipline and other arts -- and herein we consider a con...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Splendid Wake project

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On Wednesday, September 25, more than one hundred poets met at the George Washington University Gelman Library's Special Collection Conf...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

A square-root of dead weight . . .

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     A poet  I love ( Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013 , 1995 Nobelist ) has died. The NYTimes obituary for Heaney quotes one of my favorites of hi...
Monday, June 10, 2013

A sestina from Rudyard Kipling

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My father died many years ago, when I was still a young girl, and I have few possessions that were once his.  One is The First Jungle Book ,...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

A permutation puzzle -- the sestina

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In a sestina, line-ending words are repeated in six six-line stanzas in a designated permutation of the words; the thirty-nine-line poem end...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

A septina ("Safety in Numbers") -- and variations

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Recall that a sestina is a 39 line poem of six 6-line stanzas followed by a 3-line stanza.  The 6-line stanzas have lines that end in the ...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Permuting words and and enumerating poems

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Caleb Emmons teaches mathematics at Pacific University.  Here is his very-clever description of the requirements for a poem to be a sestina...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Syllable-Sestina -- a square permutation poem

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Some poetry is " free verse " but many poems are crafted by following some sort of form or constraint--they might be sonnets or ba...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Prisoner's Dilemma -- and permutations

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In game theory's original, single-play, Prisoner's Dilemma problem, two prisoners each are given the choice between silence and bet...