Coordinated by Sarah Glaz, professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut and poet, the poetry reading at Bridges 2019 features poetry with strong links to mathematics, a great variety of topics, and a wide range of poetic styles. The reading is hosted by Emily Grosholz, professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and poet. The first part of the program starts with a celebratory reading from Emily Grosholz's two newly published books, followed by invited poets: Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Susan Gerofsky, Lisa Lajeunesse, Marco Lucchesi, Iggy McGovern, Mike Naylor and Eveline Pye, reading selections from their work. The program concludes with a reading of poems by Sarah Glaz, Susana Sulic, and an open microphone period where Bridges participants read their own mathematical poems. Click here for a pdf file of the program. Click here for the venue location on google-maps. More information about the Bridges poetry readings and anthologies is available at Bridges 2019 Poetry Reading website.
Puzzle and poetry lovers, here is a treat from Bridges Linz!
Lisa Lajeunesse encoded a number of poems written by Bridges poets in Latin square and Graeco-Latin square puzzles.
For your enjoyment, Lisa offers a sample of her puzzle-poems at the link below:
About the Coordinator and the Invited Poets
Sarah Glaz's first poetry
collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim
House,
2017) is a finalist for both Next Generation Indie
Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is
Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area
of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry
translations, and articles on the connections
between mathematics and poetry appeared in a
variety journals, edited volumes, and anthologies.
She coedited the poetry anthology, Strange
Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (AK
Peters/CRC Press, 2008), and was guest-editor of
the Journal
of Mathematics and the Arts, Special Issue:
Poetry and Mathematics. Sarah serves as
Associate Editor for the Journal of
Mathematics and the Arts, and as
coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual
Bridges conferences and editor of
the Bridges Poetry Anthologies. Website: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz
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Emily Grosholz is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and has been an advisory editor for the Hudson Review for over thirty years. The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems was published in 2017 by Word Galaxy / Able Muse Press, with drawings by Farhad Ostovani. Her chapbook, Childhood, (Accents Publishing, 2014) with drawings by Lucy Vines Bonnefoy, has raised over $3500 in the past four years for UNICEF. Childhood had been translated into Japanese, Italian and French. A German translation by Ulrike Blatter is underway. Her philosophy book Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (Springer, 2016) won the 2017 Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science, and her book on poetry and mathematics, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry, appeared with Springer in 2018. Website: http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html Sample poem: Among Cosmologists |
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Susan Gerofsky, Mathematics
Education
professor at the University of British Columbia,
Canada, brings experience from many fields to
mathematics education. Her research is in
embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics
education through the arts, including poetry, dance
and movement, film, theatre, gesture and voice. She
also works in garden-based environmental
education, language and genres of
mathematics education, and media theory. She
holds degrees in languages and linguistics
and mathematics education, and worked
for years in film production, adult education,
and as a high school teacher. Dr. Gerofsky has studied
and taught in England, Brazil, Italy, Germany
and Cuba. She speaks several languages, is an
active musician, and a published poet and
playwright. She contributed to the award-winning
book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon
Press, 2017) and has a verse play published in The
Mathematical Intelligencer.
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Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at
Capilano University in North Vancouver. She studied
mathematics and music for her bachelor degree and her
graduate research area was Model Theory, a branch of
mathematical logic. Between her undergraduate degree
and graduate studies, she worked for ten years with
Telesat Canada, launching and controlling Canada's
domestic communication satellites. She also taught
piano and voice privately and wrote poetry. More
recently, she has developed mathematics courses on the
connections between mathematics and the arts to reach
out to non-science students, and to express her
lifelong passion for creative writing, music and the
other arts. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote
a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to
attend Bridges for the first time. A sample of Lisa's
poetry may be found at:
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Marco Lucchesi,
Professor
of
Comparative Literature at the Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian poet, novelist,
essayist and translator. Marco was elected to the
Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 2011 and became
its president in 2018. He is a regular contributor to
the newspaper, O Globo, and is the
former editor-in-chief of the ABL journal,
Revista Brasileira, and the
National Library of Brazil poetry magazine, Poesia
Sempre. His publications include twelve
award winning books and numerous works of
translation, among others Poemas Reunidos
[Collected Poems], Hinos Matematicos [Mathematical
Hymns], Irminsul [his collected
Italian poems], and translations of Rumi, Khlebnikov, Rilke, Pasternak
and Vico. His work has
been widely anthologized and translated into more than
ten languages. His literary honors include the Prize
Alceu Amoroso Lima, a lifetime achievement award in
poetry.
Sample poem: First Test
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Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also a poet, blending formal structure, humor and science. Iggy has published with Dedalus Press three poetry collections: The King of Suburbia (2005), Safe House (2010) and The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017), and an anthology 20|12: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines (2012). A Mystic Dream of 4 (Quaternia Press, 2013) is his verse biography of the nineteenth century Irish mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton. Among his awards are: the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry, the Hennessy Award for Poetry, and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. He has read his poems at international festivals in Europe, North America and Australasia. One of his recent lecture's title is: Science and Poetry -- not so different?
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Mike Naylor is a co-director of Matematikkbolgen and of the Math Creativity and Competency Center in Norway. He gives courses for teachers, students and the public, designs math rooms for schools and develops mathematical games and learning products. Mike presents mathematical ideas in creative ways, including poetry, literature, art, music, video, software, drama, and other performances, and is author of over 100 publications spanning a range of mathematical genres. Mike is known for his Naked Geometry art series and book, and his quarterly column on Mathematics and Creativity in Tangenten magazine. In 2015 he was named a "Math and Science Hero" by the minister of education in Norway. For the past nine years Mike presented artwork and poetry at the Bridges conferences. More information on Mike's projects can be found at his website. Website: http://mike-naylor.com Sample poem: Decision Tree |
Eveline Pye worked as an Operational
Research Analyst for Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines,
in Zambia, for almost ten years, and was a Statistics
Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, in Scotland,
for over twenty years. Her mathematical and statistical
poetry has been published in a wide range of literary
magazines, newspapers and anthologies. In September
2011, Significance Magazine, the joint
publication of the Royal Statistical Society and the
American Statistical Association featured her work in
education and published a selection of her poems as part
of their Life in Statistics series. She was
poetry editor for New Voices Press and worked
for the Federation of Writers (Scotland). A collection
of her poems about Zambia, Smoke that Thunders,
was published by Mariscat Press in 2015. Examples of
Eveline's mathematical poems may be found online at: Website:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00510.x Sample poem: Chingola Tankhouse |