Some Poems Available Online
Some poems referenced in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts Report:
“Poetry and Mathematics: A Reading,
Joint Mathematics Meetings,
Washington, DC, 7 January 2009,”
Journal of Mathematics and the Arts,
Volume 3, Number 2 (June 2009), pp. 111
–
112
are available online
(as of May 11, 2010):
Equation for My Children, Wilmer Mills
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=31080
Mathematics, Jennifer Crow
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020527/mathematics.shtml
Barbie Says Math is Hard, Kyoko Mori
http://www.ohiorc.org/articles/default.aspx?id=zitlow_sanders
(scroll to the bottom of the interview for the poem)
Math is Beautiful and So Are You, Becky Dennison Sakellariou
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/07/math-is-beautiful-and-so-are-you-becky.html
What Drove Me Into Math, Marion Deutsche Cohen.
http://www.scene4.com/karrenlalondealenier/2008/11/the_mysteries_of_grey_gardens.html
(scroll to the bottom of the piece for the poem)
Flash Cards, Rita Dove
Other poems from the reading are accessible online
(also as of May 11, 2010):
Dialectic of the Census Takers, Karren LaLonde Alenier
http://washingtonart.com/beltway/alenier.html
(fourth poem on the page)
Five Poems about Zero, Eryk Salvaggio
http://www.mail-archive.com/five7five@one38.org/msg00891.html
Why Does Disorder Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands?, Roald Hoffman
www.roaldhoffmann.com/pn/modules/Downloads/docs/Why_Does_Disorder_in_the_Universe_Increase.pdf
(a pdf of just the poem)
More to come...


Also see my more rambling and personal reflections on the reading at:
http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu/douglas.norton/PoetryReadingJanuary2009Report.htm .