Monday, November 24, 2025

Mathy Lines from the Poet Laureate

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     Born in New York City (1950) and of Asian heritage, poet Arthur Sze is the 25th US Poet Laureate (named on September 15, 2025) and th...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Poetry Comics Month -- with a bit of Math

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     Poetry-comic-artist Grant Snider posts wonderfully illustrated and entertaining verses online -- on X   ( Twitter ) @grantdraws -- an...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

World Nursery Rhyme Week

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 On X I learned that this week -- November 10-14, 2025 -- is World Nursery Rhyme Week , and I searched and found this website that offers...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Simplifying Mathematics with Poetry

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  At this link , I found the following math-poetry information:        JOHANNESBURG - Some good news for struggling mathematics students: Aw...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

"Who Counts, Counts" -- by Stephanie Strickland

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         Stephanie Strickland  is a   poet whom  I know and much admire -- and her work contains a rich variety of math-poetry creations; he...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Geometry and Poetry -- with a Pumpkin

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     Posted  on  X   by talented and prolific STEAM blogger, Heidi Bee Roemer ( @poetweet4 ) ,  this Halloween poem relates to the geometry ...
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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Math Class -- featuring GIRLS

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       I recently learned of a book by creative writer   Kellie Krumrie  entitled   Math Class  (Calamari Press, 2022)  -- a book of essays ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Can math be funny?

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      Recently I discovered the website teacher planet  and found there a variety of math-related resources including humorous versions of d...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Genius grant for Math-Woman

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     Mathematician Lauren K. Williams (PhD ’05 MIT, currently Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University) has won a 2025 MacArthur Fell...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Student Contest -- STEAM-Themed Poems

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      A varied and energetic and very valuable voice for the importance of connections between mathematics and poetry is STEAM-Poetry advoca...
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Friday, October 3, 2025

The Geometry of Verse

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     Here in the US, we have a new poet laureate ( announced by the Library of Congress on September 15, 2025 )   --  and this selected poet...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Reversible Verse

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      A recent discovery that I have found fascinating is a reversible poem -- a poem with word/line choices that read the same from the las...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Technology and Poetry and . . .

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Recently I found this online article in the Bangi News :                Why poetry has lost its lustre in the modern world It offers the fol...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Pope Leo was a Mathematics Major . . .

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      Recently I learned via a post on X -Twitter  by Anthony Bonato ( @Anthony_Bonato )  that the new Roman Catholic Pope Leo was, in coll...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Count the votes . . .

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      Today I have been thinking about election results and the role that non-voters have in deciding elections and I have shaped my words i...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Poems to Enjoy on YouTube

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      This is a quick and brief post BUT its shortness may give you some time to explore these richly populated links:               Math P...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Bridging Worlds with Mathematics

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      Each year the Association for Women in Mathematics holds an essay contest -- inviting middle school and high school and college studen...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Micro Poetry

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What is Micro Poetry? Micropoetry (a term sometimes offered as two terms)   is an ultra-short form of poetry, typically under 25 words or 14...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Using the Golden Ratio to Construct Poems

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     Poetic constraints such as syllable-counts and rhymes may seem at first glance to pose difficulties in constructing a poem BUT those of...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Learning by Writing

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The above statement comes from a blog posting by Denise Gaskins -- in her blog, Let's Play Math,   at this link .  Here's more from ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

More of Humanistic Mathematics

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      Last week I mentioned the current (July, 2025) issue of the  Journal of Humanistic Mathematics   and today I want to again call attent...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Celebrating Poetry at 2025 BRIDGES Conference

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     A lavish and wonderful celebration of connections between mathematics and the arts is the annual international BRIDGES, Mathematics a...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Poetry in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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      Twice a year a new issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is published online;  here is a link to the Table of Contests for ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Rhymes Help Us Remember

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      In a few days I will be going on a vacation with family -- enjoying time with my children and  grandchildren.  As I think back to past...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Mathematics and Golf

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      Poet and science-writer Sam Illingworth has been noted in earlier posts in this blog --  here's a link  -- and I enjoy online-sea...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

2015 Documentary Film -- Calculating Ada

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     One of the mathematicians that I celebrate for her achievements is Ada Lovelace   (1815 - 1832).  Despite her short life (with death du...
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Learning by Writing . . . and Revising . . .

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      On X ( Twitter ) today I found the following quote posted by poet Ilya Kaminsky -- quoting recently deceased poet  Fanny Howe (1940...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Mathematics linked to Water

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      I was captivated by the title -- "He's Not a Poet, But He Plays One" -- of a poem (f ound here ) by Donald Illich -- an...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Teaching Math with Poetry -- Some Activities

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      The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) offers delightful and broad-ranging connections between mathematics and the arts.  An art...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Counting syllables . . .

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Musing this morning, this blogger found these words:  My hands hold a pen and my fingers translate thoughts into words on paper.  Sometimes ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

from UPSTART -- A Magazine of Art + Culture + Life

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THANK YOU, Greg Coxson, for frequent sharing of MATHY POEMS with me!       Gregory Coxson , professor and researcher in the Department of E...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Honoring Peter Cameron

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THANK YOU, Peter Cameron, for your generous sharing of mathematical ideas and their links!       Happening soon -- the Conference on Theoret...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Opening the Mind . . .

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Recently I found     ( on  X   @letsplaymath )    this thoughtful and poetic musing by Denise Gaskins   :          Mathematical beauty      ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The Art of Numbers

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    A good friend who is a strong and active supporter of math-poetry links is Annapolis Naval Academy Professor Greg Coxson -- and, in a r...
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Friday, June 6, 2025

Mathematics of Family -- in a Poem

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      Split This Rock is an activist poetry organization that calls poets to a greater role in public life and reaches out to a network of...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Digital Art Exhibition Seeks Math Poetry

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Submission Deadline -- September 24, 2025 Space Byi *2025 is an experimental digital art platform dedicated to exploring the intersection o...
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...