What prompted the idea for the course? I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I recall telling my students that everything is and can be connected to math, even ...

Cohen, who has taught mathematics at the City College of New York, Drexel University, Widener University and Philadelphia University, says that as a child, “I never thought that I would be a writer,” ...

Children’s poet laureate Lewis turns poems from Whitman, Frost, Lear, and more into story problems (poetry problems?) to comically absurd effect. Inspired by Dickinson, Lewis writes, “My book closed ...

In Sunil Mishra’s book titled Return of the Hypotenuse, Einstein, Newton and Archimedes’ principles pass through fun meters and rhymes, finds Phorum Dalal Sunil Mishra, the author of Return of the ...

It’s hard to figure out how much poetry is being published in America. When I suggested to Michael Neff, founder of Web del Sol, that anyone can start an online journal for $100, he pointed out that ...

Unseen poems written by Cecil Day-Lewis and W H Auden for a former schoolboy pupil in 1930 have come to light, showing a list of off-the-cuff rhymes in stark contrast to their most famous works. The ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...

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uncommon courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I ...