Coordinated by Sarah Glaz, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut and poet, the Bridges 2022 poetry reading features poetry with strong links to mathematics, a great variety of
topics, and a wide range of poetic styles. Susan Gerofsky, professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of British Columbia and poet, will serve as guest-host of the reading. This year's reading offers
the work of a diverse and exciting group of poets who will participate either in-person or with prerecorded videos. The program will start with fourteen prominent poets reading selections from their work,
followed by an open mic and late additions reading period where Bridges 2022 participants will read their own mathematical poems. The poetry reading is part of the Bridges 2022 conference Family Day,
which is free and open to the public. Details of the venue and the program are found here. In addition, the reading has an online component, the present website. The Bridges 2022 Poetry Reading website
offers links to videos of short readings and printable sample poems by each of the participating poets and by a number of poets who participated in past Bridges poetry readings, but could not join us this
year. Works by past and present Bridges poets are included in the Bridges Poetry Anthologies. Information on past Bridges Poetry Readings and Bridges Poetry Anthologies appears on the Bridges
organization site and at: Mathematical Poetry at Bridges.
The Bridges 2022 live poetry reading, virtually!
For those who cannot be there an approximation of the live poetry reading can be experienced at the link below. Click on PLAY ALL and enjoy!
Bridges 2022 Poetry Reading Full Youtube Playlist
About the Coordinator and the Invited Poets
Sarah
Glaz's
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 co-edited 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. Printable sample poem: Coherent rings shine faintly in the night sky |
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Madhur Anand is
the author of the book of poems A New Index for Predicting
Catastrophes (McClelland
& Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada,
2015) and the experimental memoir This
Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (Strange
Light/McClelland & Stewart, a division of
Penguin Random House Canada, 2020) both
considered trailblazing in their synthesis of art
and science. A New Index for Predicting
Catastrophes was a finalist for the
Trillium Book Award for Poetry. This Red
Line Goes Straight to Your Heart won the 2020
Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Her second collection of poems Parasitic
Oscillations will appear with McClelland & Stewart in
2022. She is a professor of ecology and
sustainability at the University of Guelph, and was
appointed the inaugural director of the Guelph
Institute for Environmental Research.
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Video of Tatiana
Bonch Osmolovskaya reading from Sator
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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 and has recently completed a master's degree in creative writing. Her poetry frequently interweaves mathematical imagery with everyday experience. Marian's published work includes a chapbook, Fractal Poems (Enneract Editions, Penteract Press, 2021) and a collection of essays From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry (Beir Bua Press 2021). https://marianchristiepoetry.net Video of Marian
Christie reading Burning
ships and Isabelle meets the Mandelbrot
Set
Printable sample poem:
Burning
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Carol
Dorf is fascinated with the boundaries between
disciplines, particularly mathematics and poetry. She
was founding poetry editor of Talking
Writing where she wrote about issues in
contemporary poetry, and 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 Yes
Poetry, 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/
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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, Kepler:
A Renaissance Folk Play, published in The
Mathematical Intelligencer.
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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 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, Bulgarian, Arabic, Kannada, and
Yoruba. Her collection of essays Reflections
on Poetry and the World: Walking along the Hudson,
which pays homage to the Hudson
Review, just came
out from Cambridge Scholars.
http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html
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Jose
Huguenin is a Brazilian scientist and writer. He holds
a PhD in Physics and is Professor at the Exact Science
Institute of Fluminense Federal University. Jose's
research area is quantum optics and quantum
information. He received a fellowship from the
Brazilian National Council for Research to study
quantum cryptography, gates, and computing protocols
by exploring degrees of freedom of light. Literature
has been Jose's great passion since early age. His
poetry is intimately linked to science and
mathematics. Through concrete poems and free verse,
Jose searches for the meaning of life in its
connections to scientific concepts. He is
author of three books of poetry: Vintem
(2013), Experimentos poeticos (2015, "Poetic
Experiments") and Koiah (2019, "Speak" in
Brazilian indigenous language). He also published
fiction, short stories, and books on photography and
scientific dissemination. http://www.josehuguenin.com
Video of
Jose Huguenin reading Gravity,
Field lines, and Light
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Video
of Lisa Lajeunesse reading For
the stolen indigenous children
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