Showing posts with label square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label square. Show all posts
Monday, December 6, 2021

Stories of Quadrilaterals

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     Sometimes I have time to browse my shelves and rediscover old favorites.  Several of this blog's much-read poems have come from Sco...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Square poems -- pricked by a cactus!

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     Back home now in Maryland after some time in Arizona (near Tucson) with cousins, my mind is full of the beauty and diversity of the ca...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Squaring the Circle -- from the POETRY App

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     One of my smart-phone delights is the App (available from PoetryFoundation.org)  that gives me a selection of poems on the go. (My post...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

A 6 x 6 syllable-square -- and links to more . . .

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          Last Sunday's paper had           an essay by a clown           who said as long as I           play dumb people let me  ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

A Diagonal . . . and so little time . . .

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On my mind in recent days is the problem of "so little time."  About a year ago I posted a wonderful mathy poem by Californian Bre...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The Shape of the World -- a dream of equality

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     One of the most vital components of the Washington DC poetry scene is Split This Rock -- an  organization that speaks and acts against...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Seeing the NEWS in square stanzas

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Reading today's Washington Post, a surprising statistic:                Sharks don't kill                as   many               ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Square stanzas for Women in Maths

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Women in Maths -- it all adds up.      Go here for "It All Adds Up" -- a story in plus Magazine by Rachel Thomas ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

17 syllables -- and other art

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What is he talking about?  What does he mean? The thought-provoking riddle posed by these 17 syllables (presented here as 3 square stanzas)...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Stars and men revolve in a cycle . . .

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In a book-discussion group in which I participate, we are reading some of the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and that readi...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Girl Who Loved Triangles

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     I found this poem by Michigan poet Jackie Bartley when I was browsing old issues of  albatross (edited by Richard Smyth ) and she has...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Marching for Climate

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     Today I want to call attention to the growing global concern about climate change accentuated by the United Nations Climate Summit that...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Mathy poems via e-mail

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Publishing a blog about poetry and mathematics brings me new connections -- it is not unusual for a day to begin with an email from another ...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Squaring the Circle

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Reminding us of the ancient unsolvable problem that so many attempted, the July/August 2014 issue of Poetry Magazine contains "Squari...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Divided selves, some of them savvy

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     For social connections, it is desirable not to be pegged as a member of an outcast group.  And thus a mathematician is likely to have a...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Land without a square

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Here is a bit of light verse from the pen of John Updike (1932-2009). ZULUS LIVE IN LAND  WITHOUT A SQUARE      by John Updike       ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Math, Magic, Mystery -- and so few women

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Today, April 30, is the final day of Mathematics Awareness Month 2014 ; this year's theme has been "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery...
Monday, April 21, 2014

A Cento from Arcadia

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Last week I had the enjoyable privilege of visiting with mathematician-poet Marion Cohen 's math-lit class, " Truth and Beauty ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
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...