Thursday, September 19, 2019
Sing a Song of Mathematics . . .
Doug Norton also is a song-writer and often has participated in music activities at the Bridges Math-Art Conferences. Here is a sample of his math-art lyrics:
Take A Chance On Me by Doug Norton
If you change your mind and want two combined,
Don’t do Math alone:
Join the Math Art zone.
If you do Art, let me know, spread some Math around.
If you’ve got no place to go with an upper bound,
Math or Art alone feeling monotone?
Do as we condone:
Join the Math Art zone.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Poetry at the Mathematics Conference
Last weekend, April 6-9, was a virtual national jmm - Joint Mathematics Meetings -- and I attended a number of sessions that explored links between the focused languages of mathematics and poetry. Presenters that I was privileged to hear included Carol Dorf, Sarah Glaz, Gizem Karaali, and Dan May. Math guy Douglas Norton of Villanova University organized contributed-paper session on "Mathematics and the Arts" and also hosted a Friday-evening poetry reading -- an event in which much of the action was writing and sharing Fibs (6-line poems with syllable count being the first six Fibonacci numbers). Here are several samples:
From Doug Norton: From Dan May:
Me? Pet
Write? me
A Fib? Or I
Not a fib. will bite you.
Put my heart in it. Nighttime is here, time
Let’s just see what comes bleeding out. to burn off all that hay I ate.
From David Reimann: From Gizem Karaali:
Joint one
Math golden
Meetings dragon
Zoom with friends metallic,
poetry alive majestic creature --
breathing words across many miles . . . not sure I want to meet one now
Thursday, January 24, 2019
A Multi-Author Poem Celebrating Math-People
ideas unfold in space, time, and hearts.
Math is the language of everyone
Any part of everything began as a sum.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Celebrate MATH-POETRY at JMM (1-5-17) in Atlanta
Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
Friday, October 23, 2015
JMM Seattle, 1-7-16 -- Poetry+Math+Art
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Poems and primes
Friday morning, 1-17-2014, looking north from the Baltimore Convention Center |
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Read your Math-Poetry in Baltimore, 1/18/19
submit poetry (up to 3 poems, reading time up to 5 minutes)
and a 40-word bio in advance (by early November)
so you can be listed in our printed program. Early submissions are encouraged, by November 1 would be GREAT -- but submissions will be considered into mid or late November. Send submissions (and inquiries) to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali AT pomona.edu). Organizers of the event include JoAnne Growney, Gizem Karaali, Lawrence M. Lesser, and Douglas Norton.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Math-Poetry at JMM in Denver --January 2020
here at the American Mathematical Society website.
Winners will read at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)
on January 18 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.