“math” and “poetry”

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Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:21 am

April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month,
so a few years ago science writer Stephen Ornes dubbed it Math Poetry Month.

If the words “math” and “poetry” don’t intuitively make sense to you as a pair,
poet and mathematician JoAnne Growney’s blog Intersections—Poetry with Mathematics
is a perfect place to start expanding your math-poetic horizons.

The blog includes a broad range of poems with mathematical themes or built using mathematical rules.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... D69AOBX.99
“A poem should have the touch ... the way sunlight falls on Braille.” .......silent lotus
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