For your pleasure here is a small sample from the collection: The poem that started it all: Moon Compasses by Robert Frost I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause Between two downpours to see what there was. And a masked moon had spread down compass rays To a cone mountain in the midnight haze, As if the final estimate were hers; And as it measured in her calipers, The mountain stood exalted in its place. So love will take between the hands a face... And two other poems: from The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem Calculus by Sarah Glaz Links to a few other poems on Doug Norton's webpage |
First year events: To celebrate the publication JoAnne Growney organized a poetry reading, Mathematics and Love at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Washington DC, January 7, 2009. The editors, publisher, reading poets, and 100 or so mathematicians and poets in the audience, had a great time . A lovely report on the January reading by Doug Norton, SIGMAA-ARTS coordinator for the reading, Report and Reflections on "Poetry of Love and Mathematics: a Reading" To celebrate the book's arrival to UConn and Valentine Day 2009, Sarah held a reading at the UConn CooP, on February 12. Terese Karmel wrote a Valentine Day article about the volume in the Willimantic Chronicle, The mathematics of Valentine's Day. April is National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month. To celebrate the conjunction, on April 6, Sarah read from the anthology at The Litchfield County Writers Project, UConn Torrington Campus. UConn Advance published an article, by Sherry Fisher, about the book on April 13: Mathematics and love coupled in professor's book of poetry. |