Sarah Glaz's first poetry collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim House, 2017) was a finalist for both Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry translations, collaborative work with visual artists, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, for which she guest-edited the special issue Poetry and Mathematics. She coedited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (CRC Press, 2008), and as the coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences, she edits the Bridges Poetry Anthologies.   
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz

Carol Dorf is fascinated with the boundaries between disciplines, particularly mathematics and poetry. She is poetry editor of Talking Writing where she writes about issues in contemporary poetry, and has edited several issues on mathematical poetry, science poetry, and technology poetry. For many years, she taught high school mathematics, and has led poetry workshops as a California-Poet-in-the-Schools, at Berkeley City College, and other art venues. She brought her loves together by introducing poetry into the mathematics classroom and by teaching poetry writing to mathematics teachers. She has three chapbooks available, Some Years Ask (Moria Press), Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press), and Given (Origami Poems Project).  Her poetry appears in Great Weather For Media, The Mom Egg, Sin Fronteras, E-ratio, About Place, Glint, Slipstream, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, and Maintenant.     
http://talkingwriting.com/why-poets-sometimes-think-in-numbers/

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  Carol Dorf reading: In the Sense of Remaining Grounded and Categorize the Category of Categories
    Printable sample poem: Ask for a Universe and What Do You Get?

Susan Gerofsky is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Environmental Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research is in embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics education through the arts, movement, gesture and voice. She works in curriculum studies, environmental garden-based education, the language and genres of mathematics education, and media theory. Dr. Gerofsky is academic advisor and co-founder of the UBC Orchard Garden, a student-led campus learning garden. She is active as a poet, playwright, musician and filmmaker, and also works with dance and fiber arts. You'll often find her cycling around town with a baritone horn or an accordion. Susan contributed to the award-winning book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon Press, 2017) and has a verse play, Keple: A Renaissance Folk Play, published in The Mathematical Intelligencer.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-018-9818-2#citeas

  
   
     Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  Susan Gerofsky reading: Seven Strands of Alphabetical Braided Crows
    Printable sample poem: Seven Strands of Alphabetical Crows

David Greenslade recently retired as a grammar and writing tutor at Cardiff Metropolitan University.   He writes in Welsh and English and has taught at a number of universities.  He has also led writing workshops in prisons and other challenging environments.  David authored several collections of prose poetry. His collection Lyrical Diagrams (Shearman Books, 2012) juxtaposes diagrams with poetic-mathematical texts.  He has received British Council support for his work and is a winner (twice) of the Planet Welsh Internationalist Essay Award.   In 2019 he curated an exhibition of Welsh and Romanian Surrealist Art at the Welsh Senate. His latest publication as editor is Imagined Invited (Hafan Books, 2020) an international anthology of poetry and surrealist collage. Currently he shares his time between Wales and Romania where he continues to write, exhibit and nurture international projects.  

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/05/david-greenslade.html

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  David Greenslade reading: Primary Birthday, 5040, Brun's Sieve, Infinity Manifold, and Measuring
    Printable sample poem: Infinity Manifold

Emily Grosholz is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies at the University of Chicago and Yale University. She has written eight books of poetry, including The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems (Word Galaxy Press, 2017) and written or edited 14 more philosophical books, including Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (Springer, 2016), which won the 2017 Fernando Gil International Prize for Philosophy of Science, and Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry (Springer, 2018). Her book of poems Childhood has been translated into Japanese, French, Italian, German and Bulgarian. Her collection of literary essay Reflections on Poetry and the World: Walking along the Hudson, homage to the Hudson Review, just came out from Cambridge Scholars.   
http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html                                                                          

     Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  Emily Grosholz reading: Finitude, The Shape of Desire, and The First Piano Lesson (click on Play after opening link)
    Printable sample poem: The Shape of Desire 

JoAnne Growney, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she writes poems, guides poetry workshops, blogs about math-poetry connections, and enjoys activities with grandchildren.  From childhood JoAnne loved both poetry and mathematics -- but mathematical studies offered needed scholarships.  When again there became time for poetry, mathematics was one of her inspirations.   With numerous poems in math and literary journals,  JoAnne also has published several poetry collections.  Hypothesizing that everything connects, she delights in the elegant language of both mathematics and poetry and frequently applies mathematical constraints to help shape her thoughts into poems.   Her blog "Intersections --Poetry with Mathematics" offers a varied selection of poetry and commentary by poets from around the world -- and a few items of her own.

https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com

   
     Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  JoAnne Growney reading: My Dance is Mathematics, Math-Girl Mathematics, and Let's End MatHEmatics!
    Printable sample poem: My Dance Is Mathematics

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. As an undergraduate, she studied mathematics and music. Before embarking on graduate studies in mathematics, she worked for ten years with Telesat Canada on the launch and control of Canada's communication satellites. At Capilano University, she has developed and taught 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 other art forms. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. Since then, she has adapted popular logic puzzles to encode poetry so that the solving of each puzzle unlocks a poem. A sample of Lisa's poetry may be found at her website.

https://lisalajeunessepoetry.wordpress.com/

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  Lisa Lajeunesse reading: Dear Linear Algebra Student and Life and Love
    Printable sample poem: Dear Linear Algebra Student

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 the former editor-in-chief of the ABL journal,  Revista Brasileira, and the National Library of Brazil poetry magazine, Poesia Sempre. His publications include over 25 award winning books and numerous works of translation, among others Novos Poemas Reunidos [New Collected Poems], Hinos Matematicos [Mathematical Hymns], 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 Jabuti Prize, the Romanian Latin Prize, the Ministry of Italian Culture Prize, and Alceu Amoroso Lima, a lifetime achievement award in poetry.

    https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lucchesi&prev=search

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of  Marco Lucchesi reading: Set, Number/Destiny, Phi, Escher, Fractal, Hilbert, 6;28, Sign, and Lips
    Printable sample poem: Fractal

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 eleven years Mike has presented artwork and poetry at the Bridges conferences. More information on Mike's projects can be found at his website. 

http://mike-naylor.com

    
      
    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of Mike Naylor reading: The Last Crumb
    Printable sample poem: The Last Crumb

Osmo Pekonen, Ph.D., D.Soc.Sci., is a Finnish mathematician and writer based at the University of Jyvaskyla. As a mathematician, he has published on differential geometry, Teichmueller theory, K-theory and string theory, as well as on topics from the history of mathematics. He serves as the Book Reviews editor of The Mathematical Intelligencer. As a writer, he is best known for his essays, biographies and poetry translations. In particular, jointly with the Old English scholar Phil. D. Clive Tolley, Osmo translated into Finnish, the epic poem Beowulf (Helsinki: WSOY, 1999). He is a member of The Finnish Literature Society, the Finnish Association of Authors, and a corresponding member of four literary academies in France. The Institut de France awarded him the Chaix d'Est Ange prize of 2012. More information can be found at his website.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_Pekonen

  
  
  
   Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
   Printable sample poem: Descartes by Eeva-Liisa Manner (translated from the Finnish by Osmo Pekonen)

Tom Petsinis was born in Macedonia, Greece, and immigrated to Australia as a child. He is a novelist, playwright, poet, and mathematics adviser at Deakin University, Melbourne. Tom has published eight books of poetry, including Naming the Number, Four Quarters, which won the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, and the recent Steles (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019) -- 100 sonnets based on Ancient Greek funeral monuments. Of his five plays, The Drought won the Wal Cherry Playscript of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Victorian Premier's Award. His five works of fiction include the novels The Twelfth Dialogue and The French Mathematician, nominated for both the New South Wales Award and South Australian Premier's Award. Quaternia is his most recent novel featuring mathematics. Tom's work has been translated into a number of languages.

http://tompetsinis.com/

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of Tom Petsinis reading: The Curve, Patient Zero, Mathematician, and Proving Pythagoras' Theorem
    Printable sample poem: Mathematician

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 is a director of the Scottish Writers' Centre.  A collection of her poems about Zambia, Smoke that Thunders, was published by Mariscat Press in 2015.  Her second collection, STEAM, containing poems of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, will appear with Red Squirrel in 2021.  

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00510.x

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of Eveline Pye reading: The Shapes We Walk In, Coastline Paradox, Taijitu, and Imaginary Numbers
    Printable sample poem: Psephologist

Amy Uyematsu, who taught high-school math for 32 years, is a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) from Los Angeles. Her poems consider the intersection of politics, mathematics, spirituality, and the natural world. She has published five poetry volumes: 30 Miles from J-Town (Story Line Press, 1992), Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain (Story Line Press, 1998), Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), The Yellow Door (Red Hen Press, 2015) and Basic Vocabulary (Red Hen Press, 2016). Amy is the recipient of the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Prior to teaching mathematics, Amy was active in Asian American Studies at UCLA, and in 1971 she coedited the anthology Roots: An Asian American Reader (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press). Currently Amy leads a women's writing workshop in Little Tokyo Los Angeles at the Far East Lounge.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-uyematsu

    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of Amy Uyematsu reading:  A section from Praise for the Irrational, and Countdown
    Printable sample poem: This Thing Called Infinity

Ursula Whitcher is an Associate Editor for Mathematical Reviews, a publication of the American Mathematical Society. She received her Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the University of Washington and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvey Mudd College and as a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire prior to joining Math Reviews. Her research illuminates connections between algebraic geometry, number theory, and the physics of string theory. She received the Mathematical Association of America's Merten Hasse Prize for mathematical exposition and is a regular contributor to the AMS Feature Column, a collection of mathematical essays for a general audience. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of venues, including the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, VoiceCatcher, Rosalind's Siblings, Liminality, and Goblin Fruit; she has also published fiction and narrative games.

http://yarntheory.net/writing/

          
    Bridges 2021 Virtual Poetry Reading
    Video of Ursula Whitcher reading: Physics 6, Ten Categories of Being Believed by Aristotle, and jointly with S. Brackett Robertson: Weighted Graph
    Printable sample poem: Weighted Graph by Ursula Whitcher and S. Brackett Robertson