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, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. She coedited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (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. http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz 

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya was born in former Soviet Union and studied physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and philology at Moscow State Humanitarian University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian experimental poetry. Tatiana is author of fourteen books in Russian, including Introduction to the Literature of Formal Restrictions and Labyrinths of Combinatorial Literature, and co-editor of the anthology, Freedom of Restriction. Her poetry in English appeared in: Can I tell you a secret?, Across the Russian Wor(l)d, Bridges, London Grip, POEM, Rochford Street Review, and Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. She is a member of the editorial committee of Articulation and the board of PEN Moscow, and was guest-editor of a Symmetry literary issue. Tatiana organized the Mathematics and Arts seminar, the GolosA Festival of Combinatorial Poetry, and the Symmetry Festival Literary Session.  http://antipodes.org.au/en.aboutTatianaBonch.html

 
   Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya reads: Callisto, the girl from Arcadia and Berenice's hair

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqYhy9L2XE

Robin Chapman is a poet, painter and developmental psycholinguist. She is Professor Emerita of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Emerita Principal Investigator at the Waisman Center, where she studied language development in children with Down syndrome. A fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters and co-organizer of the UW Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar, she is author of eleven books of poetry, including, One Hundred White Pelicans (poems of science and climate change), Six True Things (poems of childhood in the Manhattan Project town of Oak Ridge, TN), The Only Home We Know, and, with physicist J.C. Sprott, Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos. Her mathematical poems have appeared in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Mathematical Intelligencer, and the anthology Strange Attractors.  http://robinchapmanspoetryandpainting.blogspot.com/

 
 
 
  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Robin Chapman reads: Mary Laycock, The route to chaos, Nonlinear functions, and Distance, rate, time

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SbSSQVAj_g&feature=youtu.be

Marian Christie grew up in what is now Zimbabwe. Drawn to both the arts and the sciences, she wrote poetry from an early age finding inspiration in the southern African landscape. At university she studied applied mathematics and went on to teach mathematics at schools in the Middle East and Scotland. Throughout her teaching career, she sought creative ways to stimulate students' interest and enjoyment in mathematics, particularly through cross-disciplinary projects incorporating the arts and humanities. Now retired from teaching, she lives in Southeast England where she has recently completed a master's degree in creative writing. In her poetry she frequently interweaves mathematical imagery with everyday experience, at times explicitly, at times more obliquely. Her work has been published in a number of journals, both online and in print.
https://marianchristiepoetry.net      

 
  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Marian Christie reads: Lightcone, Earth geometry, Autumn sunrise, and Degrees of freedom

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZrR-JnYhfc&feature=youtu.be

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 two issues on mathematical poetry, as well as issues on 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 two chapbooks available, Some Years Ask (Moria Press) and Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press).  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/

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkvljaKeHk

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

 
  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Susan Gerofsky reads: Legato gelato, Desert poem, No man my time, and an excerpt from Kepler: A "Renaissance Folk Play" in verse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dTiP1GVrI&feature=youtu.be

Emily Grosholz is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University. She grew up outside Philadelphia, and went to the University of Chicago and then to Yale University. She has worked and lived abroad in England, France, Germany, Greece and Italy, and traveled in Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, Spain and Portugal, Israel, Costa Rica and Argentina. She has written eight books of poetry, including The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems ( Word Galaxy Press, 2017); collaborated on three volumes of poetry translations; and has written or edited eleven 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).  
http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html

  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Emily Grosholz reads: The alliance and Stargazing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYgCh11u3k&feature=youtu.be

Gizem Karaali is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. Her mathematical research lies in the areas of representation theory, super quantum groups, and algebraic combinatorics. Her scholarly interests include humanistic mathematics, quantitative literacy, and social justice implications of mathematics and mathematics education. Gizem is a founding editor of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and is an associate editor of the Mathematical Intelligencer and Numeracy. She has organized panels, paper sessions, and poetry readings, and presented invited addresses to diverse audiences. She has a National Security Agency Young Investigator Award, is a Sepia Dot (2006 Project NExT fellow), and is serving currently as chair of SIGMAA-QL. In her spare time she likes traveling, reading and writing, and hanging out with her two children.  
http://pages.pomona.edu/~gk014747/

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9IeqyfRV4c&feature=youtu.be

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: https://lisalajeunessepoetry.wordpress.com/

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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 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 twenty-five 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://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Lucchesi

 
  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Marco Lucchesi reads: Math again

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPWGJ9JVX1s&feature=youtu.be

Alice Major published her eleventh poetry collection Welcome to the Anthropocene, in 2018, with the University of Alberta Press. Her book of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, has been awarded the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction. Among her writing awards are the 2017 Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta. Her interest in mathematics began at the age of twelve, when she was introduced to non-Euclidean geometry in one of Martin Gardner's books.  Ever since, like Percy Bysshe Shelley, she turns to math and science "to replenish my store of metaphor." She has been president of the League of Canadian Poets, first poet laureate for her home city of Edmonton (Canada), and is the founder of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. More at:                  
https://www.alicemajor.com

  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Alice Major reads: Rectangularization of the morbidity curve

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43A3dqTVq2E&feature=youtu.be

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 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Mike Naylor reads: Run, hero, run, Water's edge, and Entirely nothing

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_CTB6sLnR4&feature=youtu.be

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 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Eveline Pye reads: Marriage, Dust to dust, and Chingola tankhouse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu4ylZn4Opc&feature=youtu.be

Stephanie Strickland's eleven books of poetry include How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (Ahsahta Press, 2019) and Ringing the Changes (Counterpath, 2020), a code-generated project for print based on tower-bell ringing. Her twelve collaborative works of digital literature include Liberty Ring!; slippingglimpse, which maps text to Atlantic wave patterns; the Vniverse app for iPad; a poem generator, Sea and Spar Between, accompanied by Duels--Duets, a poem reflecting on collaborative composition and cut to fit the toolspun course, a glossed code version; House of Trust, an homage to free public libraries; and Hours of the Night, an MP4 PowerPoint poem probing age and sleep. Strickland has been granted NEA, NEH, and NYFA Arts fellowships. Her digital poems have been featured at the Library of Congress and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. http://stephaniestrickland.com

   Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
   Stephanie Strickland reads: 2 Integers, Presto! How the universe Is made, SO it comes in the fullness of mind and it came to..., and Distaff tech

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV09mM67VQg

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, and Goblin Fruit; she has also published fiction and narrative games. http://yarntheory.net/writing/

  Bridges 2020 Virtual Poetry Reading
  Ursula Whitcher reads: Tuesday, K-Theory, Confidence interval, and Difference equations

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjCoKArKfM