Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poems. Go here for information about their Eighth Annual Poetry Contest (with submission deadline November 1, 2014).
Here in this blog, as I present connections between poetry and mathematics, I provide some poems of protest and advocacy. I advocate attention to problems of climate change -- to keep our world habitable; I advocate full recognition of women in the sciences -- for a not dissimilar reason. We must not waste our resources.
Showing posts sorted by date for query haiku. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Showing posts sorted by date for query haiku. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
2013 (and prior) -- titles, dates of posts
Scroll
down to find dates and titles (with links) of posts in 2013. At the bottom are links to posts through 2012 and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this
blog was begun. This link leads to a PDF file that lists searchable topics and names of poets and mathematicians presented herein.
Dec 30 Error Message Haiku
Dec 26 The angel of numbers . . .
Dec 23 Ah, you are a mathematician
Dec 20 Measuring Winter
Dec 30 Error Message Haiku
Dec 26 The angel of numbers . . .
Dec 23 Ah, you are a mathematician
Dec 20 Measuring Winter
Monday, December 30, 2013
Error Message Haiku
Found at Komplexify.com, a variety of (often-amusing) mathematical verses -- including a collection of Error Message Haiku. Approaching a New Year, I have been reflecting on my device-dependencies and considering resolutions about them -- and musing over some of these wistful substitutions for machine messages I dread:
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Perfect circle, Haiku
Perfect circle round
the moon
In the center of the sky
by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), from Book of Haikus (Penguin, 2003). Thanks, Francisco.
PS. If Kerouac were a mathematician he'd have noticed that "perfect" is implied by the definition of "circle" and is unnecessary. But Kerouac was a poet and he saw a different necessity.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Another 17-word Haiku
If a poet uses only one-syllable words, the resulting Haiku is a bit longer than usual -- as in this Haiku in which the word lengths also follow an increase/decrease pattern, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:
I am the girl voice.
Drafts scribed -- thoughts stretched, smoothed, squared, sighed --
catch here now my I.
Drafts scribed -- thoughts stretched, smoothed, squared, sighed --
catch here now my I.
I have offered other 17-word Haiku in these postings -- 27 June 2013 and 16 July 2013 -- and the latter of these is my entry into the Haiku-to Mars contest. To vote for that Haiku to be one of three sent to Mars by NASA on the Maven spacecraft next November, click here. (Voting ends July 29.)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Haiku to Mars -- select and vote
Each of us may now (July 15 - 29) vote for one of the thousands of Haiku submitted to NASA's "Haiku for Mars" contest. Three top vote-getters will be selected for transmission to our red planet. I invite you to vote (at this link) for my entry. My contest Haiku also is shown below; it follows a particular number scheme -- formed from one-syllable words with word-lengths following this pattern: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
THANKS for your vote.
I go for Mars, start
dreams -- flights straight, stretched, streamed, whirled bright.
Round bold red am I.
THANKS for your vote.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
17-word Haiku
On 25 May 2013 this blog contained an announcement of NASA's Haiku-to-Mars contest. The contest rules are here -- and July 1 is the deadline for submission. Voting to select three favorite submissions will begin on July 15. For my own submission I decided to use numerical constraints -- I limited my Haiku to one-syllable words and used an increasing-decreasing pattern of the lengths of words. Here is an example (not the one I submitted, which begins "I go for Mars . . .").
A is the sign first
spread through thoughts –- stretched, breathed, squared, sighed.
Trace thru all to Z.
spread through thoughts –- stretched, breathed, squared, sighed.
Trace thru all to Z.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Haiku with a number or two
Recently Irish poet and New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon read at the Folger Shakespeare Library -- and, sadly, I missed the event. To note the occasion, however, I turned to a Muldoon collection on my shelf, purchased a dozen years ago when I heard him read -- a lively and enjoyable performance, with wit and gusto -- at Bucknell University's Stadler Poetry Center.
I have not found significant mathematical imagery in Muldoon's work -- but here are several stanzas from his "Hopewell Haiku" that include numbers.
XLI by Paul Muldoon
Jean paints one toenail.
In a fork of the white ash,
quick, a cardinal.
I have not found significant mathematical imagery in Muldoon's work -- but here are several stanzas from his "Hopewell Haiku" that include numbers.
XLI by Paul Muldoon
Jean paints one toenail.
In a fork of the white ash,
quick, a cardinal.
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Haiku to Mars
Send a Haiku to Mars on the MAVEN!
to select three Haiku to send to Mars:
NASA is offering all of us a way to ‘Go to Mars’ aboard a DVD flying on the solar winged MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter via a contest managed by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP). Haiku messages will be voted on by the public; the top three most popular entries will be sent to Mars on the MAVEN spacecraft and will be displayed on the MAVEN website. More information here.
7-prime Haiku
Start with 2 - 3 - 5
and then 7 - 11 -
13 - 17
and then 7 - 11 -
13 - 17
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Is mathematics discovered -- or invented?
The issue of whether mathematics is invented or discovered is posed often. Less frequently, queries as to where poetry falls in these categories. Perhaps individual answers to these questions depend on how each of us, from the inside, views the workings of the mind. Here we have, from poet (and math teacher) Amy Uyematsu,"The Invention of Mathematics."
Monday, June 21, 2010
Poetry with mathematical symbols
On the internet and elsewhere a variety of viewpoints are expressed about the criteria poetry should satisfy to be "mathematical." Today I want to introduce samples and links for three writers: Bob Grumman (Florida), Gregory Vincent St Thomasino (New York), and Kaz Maslanka (California). Grumman and Maslanka write poems with a strong visual element and, as the blogs and comments for all three testify, they differ in their views of what may be properly called "mathematical" poetry..
Friday, April 9, 2010
April: along with baseball we celebrate poetry and mathematics
Is it coincidence or design that
April is National Poetry Month
and
April is Mathematics Awareness Month
(This year's theme is "mathematics and sports")
In my own reading, baseball is the sport for which I have found the most poetry.
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