POETICKS

Bora Zivcovik, who was then (as I understand it) in charge of the Scientific American guest blogs, was kind enough (and adventurous enough) to take me on as a regular blogger in the spring of 2012.  My first entry appeared on 28 August 2012.  14 months later I sent my 17^th entry off to Bora and went off on a cruise to the Bahamas with an old friend who’d gotten a good deal on one she could take a companion along on, and was willing to pay my part of it, I being completely unable to.  While on Grand Bahama Island, I was unable to find my entry at the Scientific American site.  Querying Bora about it, I learned he had left his position with Scientific American and his replacement was behind schedule.  It took me a while to get in touch with the new man.  His reply was friendly but disappointing (albeit not unexpected): he had decided to discontinue my blog.  It had been an experiment that didn’t work, very few people taking an interest in it (once again demonstrating C. P. Snow’s belief in the “two cultures”).  My only real unhappiness about the blog’s demise is that I will no longer be able to pay my tithe to the church of plurexpressive art by giving exposure in the mainstream to poets using math in their works.  (Which includes *Me*.)

A major good thing about it is that it means less work for me.  But I want to continue it so am posting the entry I sent to Bora that never made it online.  Thereafter, I hope to post an entry once every two or three months.  Meanwhile, maybe I can get some other visible venue to take it.

NOTICE: NEWS ABOUT THIS BLOG WILL OCCASIONALLY BE ADDED BELOW, SO CHECK AFTER THE TABLE OF CONTENTS BEFORE LEAVING.

Below is a table of contents with links to my first blog entry, and to the seventeenth:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Entry 1: M@h*(pOet)?ica – 28 July 2012
Entry 2: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Summerthings
Entry 3: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Louis Zukofsky’s Integral
Entry 4: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Scott Helmes
Entry 5: M@h*(pOet)?ica – of Pi and the Circle, Part 1
Entry 6: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Happy Holidays!
Entry 7: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Circles, Part 3
Entry 8: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Karl Kempton
Entry 9: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Mathematics and Love
Entry 10: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Mathekphrastic Poetry
Entry 11: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Mathekphrastic Poetry, Part 2
Entry 12: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Matheconceptual Poetry
Entry 13: M@h*(pOet)?ica – The Number Poems of Richard Kostelanetz
Entry 14: M@h*(pOet)?ica – Music and Autobiography
Entry 15: M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part One
Entry 16: M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part Two
Entry 17: M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part Two
Entry 18: 31 March 2014: Knocked Back to the Otherstream

NEWS

8 February 2014.  This blog’s new name will henceforth be: Mathepoetcetera:  A Continuation of a Mathematical Poetry Blog Formerly a Guest at the Scientific American Website.  The “etcetera” that is part of the new name is important.  It is intended to suggest that my blog will now be about more than just mathematical poetry.  The math(ematics) and poet(ry) in the name is intended to indicate the blog’s continuing major interest in the combination of mathematics and poetry that proved so unbeguiling to Bora’s replacement at Scientific American, but I hope to do more with all of science and poetry–and perhaps science and arts other than poetry.  I have some ideas.  Please, if you have almost anything you think I might be interested in using here, get in touch with me.  Probably the best way to do that is via a comment containing your email address.  As an egomaniac, I love displaying my own work and gabbing about it, but as a genuinely ardent team-player I also love calling attention to the many other unrecognized otherstreamers doing valuable work.

16 November 2014 Note: 184 visitors so far.  I fear this blog is done for.  I’ve been in a bad slump for a long time now.  I no longer believe there’s much chance that it will end.  –Bob

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