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. 
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz

 
    
     Video of Madhur Anand reading from Parasitic Oscillations     
     Printable sample poem: The Theorem of Friends and Strangers

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

    Video of Tatiana Bonch Osmolovskaya reading from  Sator square     
    Printable sample poem: Series of two

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 ships

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/   

  
    Video of Carol Dorf reading In the Sense of Remaining Grounded and Categorize the Category of Categories  
    Printable sample poem: The geometry of distraction

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.

   
    Video of Susan Gerofsky reading Spring moon and Diagonal eyes enter leaving  
    Printable sample poem: Diagonal eyes enter leaving

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                 

   
    
     Video of Sarah Glaz reading from Emily Grosholz's book Great Circles; The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry
     Printable sample poem: The dissolution of the rainbow

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   
    Printable sample poem: Gravity

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/                                                                                                                        

    Video of Lisa Lajeunesse reading For the stolen indigenous children     
    Printable sample poem: A Portrait of my mother (1927 - 2016) as a bifurcation diagram

Marco Lucchesi,  Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 2011, Marco served as its president from 2018 to 2021. 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

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 information is found at Alice's website.  

     Video of Alice Major reading Currency and Path integral  
     Printable sample poem: Path integral

Mike Naylor is a co-director of Matematikkbolgen and DragonFjord Puzzles in Norway. He designs and produces puzzles, 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 fourteen 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

    Video of Mike Naylor reading Decision Tree 
    Printable sample poem: Entirely nothing

Doug Norton is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Villanova University. Doug's first interaction with the math-art community happened when his proposal for a paper session at the 2003 Joint Math Meetings merged with Reza Sarhangi and John Sullivan's proposal. He was pulled in by the dynamo that was Reza, attended Bridges Alhambra 2003, and has been hooked on Bridges ever since. He pulled his first all-nighter in ages in his motel room at Bridges Towson 2012, completing the lyrics for his first Bridges Informal Music Night presentation. Since 2015, he has attended Bridges and presented a new song each year. Whether contrafactum or parody or something else altogether, whether poetry or lyrics, he tries with each piece to capture some sense of the meeting. The lyrics are available at his website. https://www.bridgesmathart.org/norton-lyrics/

   
    Video of Doug Norton performing Birdland/Finland   
    Sample multimedia work: Bridges Nowhere

Tom Petsinis was born in Macedonia and immigrated to Australia as a child. He is a novelist, playwright, poet, and mathematics adviser at Deakin University, Melbourne. Tom has published nine books of poetry, including Naming the Number, Four Quarters, and isolation (2021) -- poems based on the COVID experience. His plays include The Drought, Salonika Bound and Hypatia's Circle. Among his works of fiction are the novels The Twelfth Dialogue, The French Mathematician, Quaternia and Fitzroy Raw. Forthcoming works include the novels Fog and Plato's Number, the play Zorba's Last Dance, and the narrative prose-poem Shinoko and the Silkworm. Tom's work has been translated into a number of languages. His literary honors include the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, the Wal Cherry Playscript of the Year Award, and a nomination for South Australian Premier's Award. http://tompetsinis.com/

    Video of Tom Petsinis reading  Newton's epiphany, Three spheres, Captive dice, Father's advice, Son's reply, and Kepler's snowflake  
    Printable sample poem: Zero

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 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 served as 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 2022.  

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

   
     Video of Eveline Pye reading Data mining, Numerical landscape, The impassioned statistician, and Black swan