Monday, May 26, 2025

An AMS Presentation by Sarah Hart

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      One of the strong and consistent promoters of connections between mathematics and the arts is Sarah Hart and she recently gave the  2...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Student-Run Math Poetry Magazine

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     Several weeks ago I was surprised and delighted to receive an email from Lillian Liu , a high school student in Westchester, New York a...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

2025 BRIDGES--mid-July in Eindhoven, Netherlands

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      Once again, my mathematician-poet-friend  Sarah Glaz has carefully organized a math-poetry reading -- this one to be held at the upco...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

Math Class

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      One of my very-special math-poetry connections -- and a frequent sharer of new poems with me -- is Gregory Coxson , Professor in the E...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Power Grows with Numbers

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     A worthy organization in Washington, DC in which to get involved is FREE MINDS BOOK CLUB  ( https://freemindsbookclub.org/about-us/ ) -...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Math Poems for Students

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      Here at the website We Are Teachers  I found a delightful collection of 38 Math Poems for Students in All Grade Levels .  Although I l...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Remembering Pennsylvania Poet Harry Humes

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     A Pennsylvania poet whose work I enjoyed and learned from has recently passed away --  Harry Humes , who taught literature and film at ...
Monday, April 28, 2025

What America Looks Like -- a poetry-photo

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     Recent Presidential misstatements and distortions of American politics and policies are disturbing -- and I have pulled from my shelf a...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Earth Day -- Conserve!

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      Today I look back to this "Fib" posted last year and to other previous Earth Day postings .  -- as I HOPE that we can learn ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Steam Poetry Video Contest -- deadline 4/30

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      A brief reminder that the STEAM POWERED POETRY VIDEO CONTEST -- announced in this this posting from last November -- has its entry de...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

AMS Contest-winning Student Mathy Poems

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      It delights me that the American Mathematical society links math and poetry by sponsoring a student poetry contest each year.   AMS r...
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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Math Women -- and one of them writes Poetry

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     One of my recent delights was to be contacted by mathematician Lakshmi Chandrasekaran , a mathematician that is one of the team at Her ...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Exploring Math-Attitudes with Verse

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      Exploring the internet, looking for mathy poems, I came across the website Poemverse -- and I entered the search term math  and was l...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

In April, Celebrate BOTH Mathematics and Poetry

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           In the United States, April is both  National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month .  Visits to the links...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Zero -- Celebrate this Powerful Tool

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       As time passes I find -- to my delight -- more and more mathy poems available via internet.  Recently I was alerted to a fascinating ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Women's History Month -- Celebrate MATH-WOMEN

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      A book that I return to again and again for mathy poems is Manifold:  Poetry of Mathematics by E. R. Lutken ( Taos Press, 2021 ).  ...
Friday, March 21, 2025

A Child's Garden of Verses -- Geometry of a City

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Celebrating WORLD POETRY DAY -- with a memory!      As a child I became acquainted with poetry -- poetry that I came to love -- through a c...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

A Triangular Poem

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     Non-poets often wonder about the use of patterns in poems -- does following a set of constraints help of hinder the process?  For me, o...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Celebrate PI AND Remember its digits

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     Friday, March 14 (3.14) will be  π - day -- and I look back and remember how one of my high school math teachers challenged me and my c...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Poetry Moment with a Bit of Math

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       Recently on the weekly program  Poetry Moment  on WPSU -- a radio station in Central Pennsylvania -- poet Marjorie Maddox featured w...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Geometry of Kindness . . . Power of a Circle

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      Found on Facebook recently -- this snapshot of my syllable-count triangle from an earlier blog posting  . . . I like the way that choo...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

Black History Month Celebrates Math Women

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     Black mathematicians and female mathematicians often have not been given the credit they deserve -- and I have been delighted to find  ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Halfway Up . . . Halfway Down

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     Recently I came across the following poem -- posted by the source  English Literature  on Facebook --  and it reminded me with delight ...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Counting and Rhyming

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     Several days ago my email contained a surprise message -- containing a mathy poem --  from Ramandeep Johal , a theoretical physicist at...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Imaginary Numbers

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     Current politics has made me take more notice of several politicians' imaginary numbers -- far from fact and human needs.  And, aft...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Math-Poetry Blog -- An Invitation to Explore

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      Yesterday I made a blog posting with the same title as this one -- and this morning I discovered that my posting was full of links tha...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Collections of Mathy Poetry

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    My  friend and colleague, Marian Christie, has let me know that the math-poetry collection (with commentary) that she published in 2021 ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Poet and Math Teacher Passes On

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     Poet Jonathan Holden (1941-2024) -- who, early in his career, was a math teacher -- died just a few weeks ago.  Seeing his death notic...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

A Tetrahedron leads to a Poem

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     Minnesota teacher and writer Ben Orlin has done lots and lots to make mathematical ideas popular and accessible.   One of his prominen...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Seeking Student Math-Poems . . .

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     A quick reminder that the American Mathematical Society Student Poetry Contest DEADLINE is coming soon -- on February 2, 2025 .  Poems...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Lots and Lots of Math Blogs . . .

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     Recently I was informed by Feedspot  that this blog of mine, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics ,  was selected  as one of the   ...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Geometry in New York City

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     As I grew up on a farm, mathematics -- with planting depth-and-distance measurements, with counting of animals and fenceposts, with ang...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Enhanced Understanding of Math through Poetry

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If you have TWO ways of saying something, that enhances your understanding of it!      For those of you going to the Joint Mathematics Meet...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Mathy Poets -- Gone but Alive in our Memories

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     In a recent NYTimes article I have learned of the passing of poet-mathematician Jacques Robaud  (1932-2024) who was a key figure in th...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Looking back, reflecting on TIME

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     As the year ends, I am conscious of how quickly time seems to pass for me -- and this morning I found this thoughtful quote on Facebook...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

A bit of Wisdom with a bit of Math

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 Christmas is coming and my thoughts are focused on gifts for grandchildren and family celebrations but I want to take a few minutes to shar...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

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      I much admire the work of Nikki Giovanni -- a poet who spoke both fearlessly and eloquently.  As she deserved, her life was big news ...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Math Doors are Open Now . . .

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     One of the important and wonderful organizations to which I belong is the Association for Women in Mathematics   --  and each year AWM ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Student Math-Poetry Contest -- submit by 2/2/2025

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This message is for middle-school , high school and college students -- write a MATHY POEM , enter it in this contest : American Mathemati...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Celebrate AMS Award Winner Katherine Stange

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      For me, postings on  X ( Twitter ) are a frequent source of math-poetry news.  Today I found this: This link leads to information abou...
Monday, December 2, 2024

A 3-4-5 Triangle of Poetry

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     A wonderful feature of the Internet is the opportunity it offers for rapid connection with ideas from people around the world -- and I ...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Student Contest -- STEAM Powered Poetry Videos

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     For some of us, holidays -- Thanksgiving and Christmas and . . . -- offer time to explore new projects.  Here is a project for math/sci...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

PRECISION vs. IMAGINATION

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     In the creation and development of both mathematics and poetry both PRECISION and IMAGINATION are important.  Recently I came across th...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Exploring Angles Through Poetry

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      As I have previously mentioned , recently I have discovered mathy poems at the website poemverse.org , and I enjoy exploring there.  O...
Friday, November 8, 2024

"Countless" -- a Scrabblegram poem

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     At the website X  (Twitter) one of my frequent enjoyments is a Scrabblegram posting by David Cohen, writer from Atlanta, Georgia.  Coh...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Haiku about Math

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     Recently I have found a rich source of mathy poems to explore -- at the website poemverse.org .  For example, there are Poems about Ma...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

A Mathematician's Villanelle

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     One of the most active and effective ambassadors for connections between mathematics and the arts is Gizem Karaali . Professor of Mathe...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Geometry List Poem

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      Mike Ferguson (America-born but long-time Brit) is a retired teacher of English and creative writing AND a poet.  I offer one of his ...
Monday, October 21, 2024

"Celebration of the Mind" Day -- October 21

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     Established in honor of math-popularizer Martin Gardner (1914-2010), Celebration of the Mind Day occurs on October 21 each year.  Lot...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Halloween -- Counting Pumpkins

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     Recently I have found a website maintained by Jenna Laib , a K-8 math specialist in the Boston area -- and at her website there I have ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Poem Structured by a Finite Field

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        Mathematician   Ursula Whitcher   is an Associate Editor for the American Mathematical Society's   Mathematical Reviews  and a p...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Ada Lovelace Day -- this year October 8

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      The second Tuesday in October has been selected as Ada Lovelace Day -- a time for celebrating that pioneering woman and all women in ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Classroom Difficulties with Mathematics

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      Something to think about . . . do some of us still cling? . . . obediently and thoughtlessly . . . to beliefs such as                 ...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Complement and Compliment -- and Geometry

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     Poetry's special effects often come from the multiple meanings of terms used -- and today I offer  a snip of a mathy item that I en...
Monday, September 23, 2024

September Brings THE BLOOMSBURG FAIR

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     During the past weekend, long-time friends in Pennsylvania have reminded me that this is the week of The Bloomsburg Fair -- an annual ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Midlife Calculus -- poems by Britt Kaufmann

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     Today's featured poet, Britt Kaufmann , is not only a writer but also a graphic designer, a playwright, and "a lifelong reader...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Playing Hopscotch . . . and Counting . . .

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      Growing up on a Pennsylvania farm gave me lots of opportunities to use mathematics -- counting sheep, choosing patterns for planting, ...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Favorite Number -- a Baker's Dozen

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      Among my favorite emails are those that come from Innisfree , an online journal ( at this link ) edited by poet Greg McBride , with ne...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

math talk -- a way to learn

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EXPLORE MATHEMATICS BY TALKING ABOUT IT!       math talk: mathematical ideas in poems for two voices   is the  title of a 1991 poetry collec...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Creating New Poems by Sampling Old Ones

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      In its collection of Math Voices the American Mathematical Society ( AMS ) has a very interesting  Feature Column -- a column written...
Monday, August 26, 2024

World's Most Interesting Mathematician

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      Angela Tabiri , a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title,   World’s Most Interesting M...