Showing posts with label square poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label square poem. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

Worried about Climate Change

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     When working with students in poetry workshops I often ask them to write to satisfy a constraint -- perhaps a Fib or a square poem -- i...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Sum of moments

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Here is a 3x3 square poem -- inspired by a recently-found margin-note I made in Differential and Integral Calculus (by Ross R Middlemiss )...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Poems with Numbers

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      Hats off to the organizers and presenters at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival held in DC this past weekend.  Great poets, gr...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Counting the women

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     The stimulus for this posting appeared a few weeks ago in the Washington Post -- in an article that considers the loneliness of women...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Best words in the best order

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     Writers of mathematics strive for clear and careful wording, especially in the formulation of definitions. Well-specified definitions ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Symmetric 4 x 4 square

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Martin Gardner (1914-2010) studied philosophy and was interested in everything.  For 25 years he wrote the "Mathematical Games" f...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

5 x 5 and 6 x 6

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Many poets have found the sonnet to be an ideal poetic form -- its iambic pentameter lines are like five heartbeats assembled in a single b...
Monday, December 20, 2010

"M" is for Mathematics and . . .

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Today's poem by Miroslav Holub  (1923-98) is square , having 5 lines of 5 letters each; it describes the letter M by using what is "...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Celebrate Constraints -- Happy Birthday, OULIPO

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Patrick Bahls and Richard Chess of the University of North Carolina at Ashville have organized a " Conference on Constrained Poetry &...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Squares of Climate Concern

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The square  (with as many lines as syllables per line) is a poetry-form that has existed   for centuries  and is now enjoying a revival.  He...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

From "Red Has No Reason" -- a poem about the nature of mathematics

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My new poetry book, Red Has No Reason , is now available (from Plain View Press or  amazon.com ).  Several of the poems mention math--and o...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Square comment on shoe styles

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     Recently I have returned to Silver Spring from a trip to Latvia , traveling with a friend who was born there.  My effort to find poetry...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

A Square for Earth Day

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Greetings on EARTH DAY.  Earth's inhabitants today pay a price not only for our own careless habits but also for earlier ignorance about...
Friday, April 9, 2010

April: along with baseball we celebrate poetry and mathematics

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Is it coincidence or design that       April  is   National Poetry Month                          and    April  is  Mathematics Awaren...
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