I invite you to celebrate the coming of the new year 2013 with a poem I like a lot.
Alberta poet Alice Major produces poems that feel good in the mouth when you read them aloud. As in "Locate the site," offered below. From the repeated t's in her title and the c's in her epigraph to her closing lines with "accept / the guidance of whatever calculating god / has taken you in care," I hugely enjoy the vocal experience of reading Major's words; and that pleasure enhances their meaning. That her terms often are mathy adds still more enjoyment.
Locate the site by Alice Major
To find a city, make a chance encounter
The plane sails in above the setter-coloured fields
swathed in concentric lines of harvest,
circle on square. I find myself returning
to this place that wasn't home.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Symmetry in poetry
In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries); one of these is translation -- movement of an object from one place to another along a straight line path. Here are a few lines by Alberta poet Alice Major that explore the paths of rhyme as a sound moves to and fro within a poem :
Rhyme's tiles slide
from line
to line, a not-so-rigid motion --
a knitted, shifting symmetry
that matches 'tree'
Rhyme's tiles slide
from line
to line, a not-so-rigid motion --
a knitted, shifting symmetry
that matches 'tree'
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Visit BRIDGES -- for (art and) poetry
This growing-then-melting syllable-snowball poem is offered in recognition of mathematician-and-poet Sarah Glaz and as a reminder of the poetry reading Glaz is organizing -- to be held at the 2012 BRIDGES Math-Art conference at Towson University, July 25-29.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Poetry with Math -- BRIDGES 2012, Limericks
During July 25-29, 2012, Towson University will be hosting BRIDGES 2012, a mathematics-and-the-arts interdisciplinary conference. This year's conference will feature a poetry day on Saturday, July 28. -- an event that is free and open to the public as are all "Family Day" conference activities after 2 PM. Mark your calendar. More information is available at the end of this post (scroll down) and at the BRIDGES website.
This weekend in Washington, DC (April 28 - 29, 2012)
enjoy "the largest celebration of science in the USA" --
visit the FREE USA Science and Engineering Festival --
featuring more than 3000 exhibits.
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