Coordinated by Sarah Glaz, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut and poet, the Bridges poetry readings feature poetry with strong links to mathematics, a great variety of
topics, and a wide range of poetic styles. This year's poetry reading offers the work of a diverse and exciting group of poets. This is the first fully in-person Bridges poetry reading since the start of the
pandemic. The program will begin with twelve prominent poets reading selections from their work, followed by an open mic and late additions reading period where Bridges 2023 participants will read
their own mathematical poems. The poetry reading is part of the Bridges 2023 conference's Family Day, which is free and open to the public. Details about the venue and the program will be posted here
as we get closer to the conference's date. The Bridges 2023 Poetry Reading website offers, along with biographical information, links to either videos or printable sample poems by each of the participating
poets. In addition, we plan the publication of the Bridges 2023 Poetry Anthology, which will include poetry by both present and past Bridges invited poets. Information on past Bridges Poetry Readings and
Bridges Poetry Anthologies appears on the Bridges organization site and at: Mathematical Poetry at Bridges.
I am happy to share with you the lovely cento composed by JoAnne Growney,
consisting of a line of poetry from each of the invited poet's sample poem given on this page.
How harmoniously our voices blend together! Thank you, JoAnne!
Bridges 2023 Cento at: Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics
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. Website: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz Sample poem: Ptolemy's Almagest: Book I |
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Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for writing poetry and memoirs on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She authored 33 books. Her newest poetry collection is Negative Aspects (dancing girl press), and her latest prose collection is Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother (Alien Buddha Press). Forthcoming are: Disturbing Shapes and Reasons and Remedies for Insomnia. She is also the author of two controversial memoirs about "well-spousery," a trilogy diary of full-term-pregnancy loss, and Crossing the Equal Sign, about the experience of and her passion for math. This year, her work has been included in six anthologies. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Drexel University's Honors College. Other poetic inspirations are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, grown children and step-children, and six grandchildren.
Sample poem:
So glad
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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.
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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 (2018).
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Sample poem: Model
Theory |