Coordinated by Sarah Glaz, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut and poet, the poetry reading at Bridges 2021 features poetry with strong links to mathematics, a great variety of topics, and a wide range of poetic styles. The program starts with fourteen invited poets reading selections from their work, followed by an open mic and shorter readings period where Bridges 2021 participants can read their own mathematical poems. Additional information on the time, location, and program of the reading will be posted here and on the Bridges Organization site closer to the event. Works by past and present Bridges poets are included in the Bridges Poetry Anthologies. More information about the Bridges poets, updated shortly before the conference, may be found on The Bridges Poets News. Information on past Bridges Poetry Readings and Bridges Poetry Anthologies appears on the Bridges Organization site and at The Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology site.
About the Coordinator and the Invited Poets
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.
Website: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz Sample poem: Twenty-Eight Lines for the En-Priestess Enheduanna |
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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.
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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.
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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.
Website: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/05/david-greenslade.html
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Website: http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html
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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.
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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.
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