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The
Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology, celebrating 10 years of
mathematical poetry readings at Bridges, is edited by
Bridges poetry readings coordinator, Sarah Glaz, and
features poems by Bridges 2020 as well as by past Bridges
conferences invited poets. Printed in color, with a cover
design and image by Kerry Mitchell, it is available
world-wide through LULU.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Bridges
2020 conference that was scheduled to be held in Helsinki in
August, became virtual. In lieu of the usual mathematical
poetry reading featured at past Bridges conferences, the
Bridges poets offered recorded videos of their readings.
Those were collected by Sarah Glaz, along with more
information about the poets, and appear at Bridges 2020 Virtual
Poetry Reading.
Mike Bartholomew Biggs
Mike Bartholomew Biggs' poem, "Ekphrasis in
an Essex Sculpture Garden," appeared in the October 2019
issue of The Blue Nib.
Tatiana Bonch
Osmolovskaya
Tatiana Bonch Osmolovskaya's poetry book in
Russian language, Along the Fox Trails, appeared with Free
Poetry Press in 2020. The book is available in bookstores
and libraries in Moscow and online from the publisher.
Tatiana Bonch
Osmolovskaya's paper, "Minoan
artifacts,
avant-garde games and Mayakovsky's children's letter," appearing in Knife
in August 2020, covers the history of spiral shaped poems
from ancient times to the present. Originally written in
Russian, it can be read in English using Google Translator.
Robin Chapman
Robin Chapman's poem, "Pandemic Math: X and Y
Axes," appeared in the Spring
2020 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer.
Robin Chapman's poetry book, The Only Home We Know, appeared with Tebot Bach
in 2019. The poems invoke the connectivity of the natural
world to reveal a wholeness at the heart of things that
helps us overcome the local and global disasters that daily
assail us.
Marian Christie
Marian Christie's poem, "Crochet," appeared in the Summer
2020 issue of the fib review.
Marian Christie's poem, "Tessellations," appeared in the March 2020
issue of The Ekphrastic Review.
Marian Christie's poem, "Limen," appeared in the March 2020 issue of Amethyst
Review.
Marian Christie's poem, "The mangoes of my childhood fell from trees," appeared in the December
2019 issue of Allegro Poetry Magazine.
Marion Deutsche Cohen
Marion Deutsche Cohen's poetry collection, Not Erma Bombeck: Diary
of a Feminist 70's Mother,
appeared with Alien Buddha Press in 2020. The poems respond
to the polarity between two activities Marion was engaged in
during the 70s: raising young children and being active in
the Philadelphia women's movement.
Marion Deutsche Cohen's collection of
mathematical limericks, "A Factor of Minus One," appeared in June, 2020
in The Disappointed Housewife.
Marion
Deutsche Cohen's poetry collection, The
Essence
of Seventh Grade: A Sort of Autobiography,
appeared with Alien Buddha Press in 2020. Its theme is
title-explanatory, and much of Marion's math autobiography
is in there.
Marion Deutsche Cohen's paper, "On Not Teaching Addition:
A Homeschooling Parent Teaches and Researches Math," appearing in Journal of Humanistic
Mathematics, in January 2020, discusses math and
motherhood issues.
Marion Deutsche Cohen's poetry collection, The Discontinuity at
the Waistline: My #Me Too Poems,
appearing with Rhythm & Bones Press in 2019, focuses on
everyday micro-aggressions many women face throughout their
lives.
Carol Dorf
Carol Dorf' poem, "Our dictator," appeared with New
Verse News on August, 2020.
Carol Dorf's poems, "Latkes" and "Bitter
honey," appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of The Reform Jewish
Quarterly.
Carol Dorf's poems, "In the Sense of
Remaining Grounded" and "Truth and Reconciliation," appeared
in Unlikely Stories Mark V, in March 2020.
Carol Dorf's poem, "Peligrosa," appeared in Poemeleon
in 2020.
Carol Dorf's poems, "This Room" and "Hold
Time" appeared in Mom Egg Review in April, 2020.
Carol Dorf's poem, "Do Not Be Alarmed,"
appeared in Maintenant in June 2020.
Carol Dorf's poetry chapbook, Given, published with Origami Poems Project in 2020,
contains six poems meditating on that which is given to us
at birth and then time takes it away.
Carol Dorf's poem, ""Mother, Can You
Explain?," appeared in The Mom Egg In 2019.
Carol Dorf's poem, "Borders & Boundaries," appeared in *82 Review
in 2019.
Carol Dorf's poem, "Categorize the
Categories," appeared in the anthology, Birds Fall Silent in
the Mechanical Sea, published
by Great Weather For Media in 2019.
Carol Dorf's poem, "I forgot the turnkey to
the void," appeared in Redheaded
Stepchild in 2019.
Carol Dorf's poem, "Ask for a universe and
what do you get?" appeared in
Maintenant in 2019.
Susan Gerofsky
Susan Gerofsky's paper, "Two New Combinatoric
Poetry Forms: Braided Bellringing PH4 Poems &
Anagrammatic, Anglo Saxon-Inspired Poems," appearing in the
Proceedings of Bridges 2020,
Susan Gerofsky's play, Kepler:: A
Renaissance Folk Play in Verse, appearing in the
Spring 2019 issue of The Mathematical
Intelligencer, is based on Kepler's life and work.
Sarah Glaz
Sarah Glaz's poems, "Archimedes" and "Since
time is a dense substance impossible to alter," appeared in
the Winter 2020 issue of The Hudson Review.
"Among practitioners of
Cossike Arte," a poem-collage pair
(poem by Sarah Glaz, collage by Mark Sanders) from the
collaborative project "Imagine Invited" conceived by David
Greenslade, appeared in the Bridges 2020 Art Exhibit and
Catalog.
Sarah Glaz's paper, "Enheduanna: Princess,
Priestess, Poet and Mathematician,"
appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of The Mathematical
Intellingencer. The paper includes translations of
several of Enheduanna's temple hymns that shed light on the
early history of Mesopotamian mathematics.
Sarah Glaz's poetry folder, "A selection of poems from
Ode to Numbers," appearing in the January
2019 issue of the Journal of Humanistic
Mathematics, includes 7 poems inspired by the history
of mathematics, which were previously published in her
poetry collection Ode to Numbers (Antrim House,
2017).
David Greenslade
Infinite
Cilia (Colacao "O Amor Pelas Palavras")
by John Welson and David Greenslade, published by Floriano
Martins at Abraxas Press (Brazil) in July 2020, is a
collection of collaborative surrealist poems and
accompanying visual analogies responding to the social and
political taboos imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Emily Grosholz
On March 2019, at the New
York City Poets House, Emily Grosholz was interviewed by
author and critic Edward Rothstein about her recent
book, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics
and Poetry, (Springer,
2018). The interview entitled, "Figures of Speech and
Figures of Thought," appeared in the
Spring 2020 issue of The Mathematical
Intelligencer.
"Yeats' Poetics," Emily Grosholz's English
translation of Yves Bonnefoy's "La Poetique de Yeats,"
appeared in Yves Bonnefoy, edited by Stephen
Romer, Anthony Rudolf and John Naughton
(Carcanet, 2020).
The workshop paper, "How
to use prime numbers and periodicity to write a poem,"
by Emily Grosholz and Sarah Glaz, appearing in the
Proceedings of Bridges 2019, discusses the uses of
periodicity and The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic in
the construction of poems.
Emily Grosholz's poems, "Blue," "South,"
"What Lyell wrote about geology," and "Surprising facts
about bees," appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of The
Hudson Review.
In November 2019, at
a villa near Venice, a concert where 8 of the poems from
Emily Grosholz's book, Childhood (Accents Publishing, 2014), set to music by Mirco
De Stefani, were sung by the soprano, Cristina Nadal, with
Igor Cognolato at the piano. It is also available as a CD, Childhood
Songs.
During 2019 and 2020,
Emily Grosholz gave a number of poetry readings geared
towards promoting her book, The
Stars of Earth, new and selected poems (Word Galaxy Press, 2017). She read at Suffolk
University, Bunker Hill Community College, Carmine Street
Metrics in New York City, and other venues.
JoAnne Growney
An ongoing math-poetry activity for
JoAnne Growney is her blog, Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics. This
resource offers math poems and commentary, once or
twice a week, since 2010.
JoAnne Growney's poem, "With Reason: A Portrait
of Sophia Kovalevsky (1850 - 1891)"
appeared in the April 2020 issue of The Mathematics
Teacher.
JoAnne Growney's essay, "When I'm Quiet
Enough to See," found in Deep Beauty, edited by Rosemary
Winslow and Catherine Lee (Woodhall Press, 2020), considers
the roles of poetry, mathematics, and farm life in
perceptions of what is beautiful.
JoAnne Growney's article about
the relation between mathematics and poetry, "Everything Connects," appeared in 2020 in the
Artist's Statement issue of Journal of Mathematics and
the Arts. The article prominently features her poem
"We Are the Final Ones," an expression of environmental
concerns structured by The Fundamental Theorem of
Arithmetic.
JoAnne Growney was interviewed by Sarah Glaz
in the summer of 2017 at Bridges Waterloo. The article, ""Artist Interview: JoAnne
Growney," appeared in Journal
of Mathematics and the Arts in 2019. It includes
ten poems by JoAnne Growney and a conversation about her
love of both mathematics and poetry.
In the March 2019 issue of Math
Horizons, JoAnne Growney's paper, "Give her your support," presents a collection of
syllable-square poems that speak out for math-women.
Philip Holmes
Philip Holmes' poem, "Bookshelves," appeared
in US 1 Worksheets 65 In 2020.
Gizem Karaali
Gizem Karaali, JoAnne Growney, and Larry
Lesser judged the first two (2019 and 2020) Student Math Poetry Contests held by The American
Mathematical Society.
"Beauty beyond perfection:
Aesthetic values in Japanese art resonant with mathematics," by Gizem Karaali1 and Sara Uehara, appearing
in the Proceedings of Bridges 2020, discusses mathematical
aspects of aesthetics by zeroing in on the Japanese
aesthetic principle of wabi-sabi.
Gizem Karaali's poem, "The bread crumbs of proof," appeared in the Spring
2019 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer.
Lisa Lajeunesse
Lisa Lajeunesse's paper, "Graeco-Latin Square Poems," appearing in the
Proceedings of Bridges 2019, introduces and discusses a new
poetic form based on a Graeco-Latin square.
Larry Lesser
Larry Lesser published a folder of 8 poems, "Statistical Poems," in the January 2020
issue of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Larry Lesser's poem, "The Point of Inflection," appeared in the June 2020 issue of Radical
Statistics; a slightly revised version was reprinted
in Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics on
August 2020.
Larry Lesser's haiku won the non-student category of the American
Statistical Association's ASA Day Haiku Contest and
appeared in the January 2020 issue of Amstat
News.
In 2020, Larry Lesser launched SPARKS, a thematic 24-song album of original
songs grounded in Jewish text with universal themes,
spanning denominations and genres.
Larry Lesser's poem, "Vertical," appeared in the December
2019 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer.
Larry Lesser's poem, "Di/vision," appeared in the Summer
2019 issue of Teaching for Excellence and Equity in
Mathematics.
Larry Lesser's poem, "The Situation,"
appeared in the 2019 Mizmor Poetry
Anthology, published by Poetica
Publishing.
Marco Lucchesi
Marco Lucchesi's poetry book, In My Most Distant
Lands, appeared with BT
Academica in April 2020. The poems in this book, originally
written in Portuguese and translated into English, Hindi,
Urdu and Bangala, connect between diverse cultures
throughout a scenario of meetings with poets and scholars
representing these languages.
Alice Major
Alice Major's paper, "Perhaps the Plaintive
Numbers Flow," appearing in the
Proceedings of Bridges 2020, discusses the various ways
poets engage in counting when composing their poems.
In November 2019, during the Fall graduation
ceremony, the University of Alberta awarded its highest
honor, an honorary doctorate of letters, to Alice Major. In
her convocation address, she included a poem for
the science graduates, blending hockey and quantum physics.
Shell
of Moon and Sun: Poems by Misuzu Kaneko, translated by Yukari
Meldrum and Alice Major, was independently published by the
translators in 2019. The book introduces the
English-speaking audience to the beloved children poems of
the Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko.
Kaz Maslanka
Kaz Maslanka's visual poem, "10,000 Dharmas
Returns..." received an award at the
"Art San Diego" art fair, which was held on October 2019.
Kaz Maslanka's visual poem, ""The Graveyard
of Empires," was shown at Los Angeles Center for
Digital Art in February 2019.
Kaz Maslanka's visual poem, "10,000 Dharmas
Returns..." was a part of the Prism art exhibit at The
Contemporary Art Gallery in Osaka, Japan, held in March
2019.
Kaz Maslanka's visual poem, "Golden Fear,"
was shown at Los Angeles Center for
Digital Art in June 2019.
Kaz Maslanka's visual poems, "Newton's
Third Law in Karmic Warfare" and "Congenital Wisdom," were
shown at Analogue Sun, Digital
Moon (Film and Video Poetry
Symposium) held at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in
July and August 2019,
where Kaz had also led a workshop on mathematical visual
poetry.
Daniel May
Daniel May's paper, "Poems Structured by
Mathematics," appearing in 2020 as a
chapter in Springer's Handbook of the Mathematics
of the Arts and Sciences, edited by Bharath Sriraman,
covers the history of the variety of poetic forms with
mathematical structure.
Daniel May's, "In
the Beginning, All is Null," appearing in the
Artist's Statement issue of
Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
in 2020, is a
multiple-choice poem based on the Hasse diagram of a
3-element set.
Daniel May's "Would-Be Exam Fibs," a funny poem originally
given to students on an exam, appeared in the fib
review issue of October 2019.
Iggy McGovern
Iggy McGovern's "Reflections,"
is a poem-for-occasion written in September 2019, in
celebration of the recognition of Birr Castle as
a site of scientific interest by the European Physical
Society.
On March 2019, Iggy McGovern's poem "A
Cyclist's Prayer" was a
joint winner (with Catherine Ann Cullen) in the Adult
section of the Joyce-Cycle Poetry
Competition.
Iggy McGovern's poem, "Airfixit," appeared in The Irish
Times in January 2019.
Mike Naylor
Mike Naylor's poem, ""Decision Tree,"
appeared in the July 2020 issue of the NCTM journal, Mathematics Teacher:
Learning & Teaching PK - 12.
Deanna Nikaido
In January 2020, Deanna Nikaido was the
featured poet in the Lit & Art Reading
Series, hosted by Eric Goodman,
which is held
every Sunday at Bird in Hand Bookshop in Baltimore,
Maryland, for over a decade.
The
25th International Seminar on Sea Names/Educating for
Diversity Through Geographical Names, held in July 2019 in
Alexandria, Virginia, celebrated the addition of the second
name, The Yellow Sea, on the Korean side of The
Japan Sea, in textbooks used in Virginia. Invited to
write a poem for the occasion, Deanna wrote "What's in a name?,"
which she read along with a brief essay about her point of
view.
Osmo Pekonen
Osmo Pekonen and Johan Sten's book, Time of Light (Art House, 2019), includes twenty portraits of
scientists, philosophers and other enlightenment figures.
Among those, appear the pioneer woman mathematician, Emilie
du Chatelet, and her lover, the philosopher, Voltaire, who
celebrated their relation with poems.
Osmo Pekonen's metric translation from
Swedish into Finnish of, Atis and Camilla, a love story set in the
world of Greek gods, published in 1761 in Stockholm,
in Swedish, by the Finnish count Gustav Philip Creutz
(1731-1785), appeared in 2019 with Faros.
Tom Petsinis
Tom Petsinis' poetry book, Steles, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing
in 2019, contains 100 sonnets based on Ancient Greek funeral
monuments.
Eveline Pye
Eveline Pye's poem, "Mother of the Seas" was
runner-up in the SciPo Poetry Competition
- "The Science of the Seas"
run by TORCH and St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Announcement
of results will be posted online on 3rd September 2020.
Eveline Pye's poems, "Painting
the
front door," "Not so much dying as...," "Locavore," and
"Clematis," appeared in the July 2020 issue of The Blue Nib.
Eveline Pye's poem, "Butterfly
Effect,"
appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Northwords Now.
Eveline Pye's poems, "Reintroducing the
Andean Condor" and "Birdtime," appeared in the February 2020
issue of Jalmurra.
Eveline Pye's essay, which discusses the
effects of climate change poetry, "Climate Change Poetry: Is
It Effective?" appeared in The Glasgow Review of
Books in January 2020.
Eveline Pye's poem, "Electric Bees," appeared
in the Fall 2019 issue of Orris.
Eveline Pye and Colin Will created STEM Poets in October 2019, a group
of twelve established poets promoting STEM poetry in
Scotland.
Eveline Pye was a member of the Board of Directors at the Scottish Writers'
Centre from August 2019 until
August 2020.
Stephanie Strickland
Stephanie
Strickland's paper, "Ringing
the
Changes," appearing in the
Proceedings of Bridges 2020, describes two of her poems
that are generated from code written to implement a
seven-bell peal's permutations.
Stephanie Strickland's poetry book, Ringing the Changes, appeared with Counterpath
Press in 2019. Ringing the Changes, based on the
ancient art of tower bell-ringing (the challenging art of
ringing all the permutations of seven bells), permutes lines
of sampled language to allude to changes to be rung in our
lives and communities.
Stephanie Strickland's poetry book, How the Universe Is
Made: Poems New & Selected, 1985 - 2019,
appeared in 2019 with Ahsahta Press. The poems,
gathered from a lifetime of writing, open to history, to
code, to mathematics and matter as these translate each
other and offer a road to light.
Amy Uyematsu
Amy Uyematsu's poems, "Zap #30," "Pilgrimage
to Johkang Temple," and "The Older, The More," were
published in Asian American Poets on
Faith and Spirituality Anthology,
edited by Leah Silvieus and Lee Herrick, Orison Books, 2020.
Amy Uyematsu's poems, "So Are We Becoming
More Visible" and "To Tell the Truth," appeared in the May
2020 issue of Rigorous.
Amy Uyematsu's poems, "On My Way to J-Town,"
"The Suitcase,' and 'Voracious,' appeared in the June 2020
issue of Cultural Weekly.
Amy Uyematsu's poems, "Heartroot," "LA Riots,
Circa 1871," and "Viral Briefs for the Farce of July, 2020,"
appeared in the July 2020 issue of Cultural Weekly.
Amy Uyematsu's poem, "Unrelenting This Heat /
Unforgiving This July," appeared in Spillway
27
in 2019.
Amy Uyematsu's poems, "Chinese Snowballs at
Huntington Gardens" and "In What Season Love, in What Season
Dying," were published in Altadena Poetry Review
Anthology 2019, by Shabda Press.
Amy Uyematsu's poem, "The Bachi-Bachi
Buddhahead Blues," appeared in the May 2019 issue of Lantern Review.
Ursula Whitcher
Ursula Whitcher's poem, "Tuesday," appeared in the Spring
2019 issue of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Ursula Whitcher's poem, "Chosen," appeared in the Spring 2019
issue of The Cascadia Subduction
Zone.
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