Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics: Scientific American feature– METER

Richard Blanco:     “An engineer, poet, Cuban American… his poetry bridges cultures and languages – a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future – reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still becoming.”– President Joe Biden, conferring the National Humanities Medal on BlancoRICHARD BLANCO is a professional civil engineer and a poet. He read his poem “One Today” at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, who selected him to serve as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history.  Blanco’s inauguration appearance is reported at this link and connection to his inaugural poem is offered there.    One of my current favorite math-poetry sources is Scientific American — edited by feminist science writer Dava Sobel and presented each month under the heading Meter.  The selection for December, 2022 was “Uncertain-Sea Principle” by Richard Blanco.  Here are it’s opening lines: Richard Blanco’s complete poem is found here.    Since William Shakespeare was a poet as well as a playwright, this current Scientific American article also connects — remotely, at least — both mathematics and poetry:  “The Mathematical Case for Monkeys Producing Shakespeare– Eventually.”