Bob Grumman is a widely-unknown mathematical poet and critic of what he calls "otherstream poetry." He has been writing a regular column for Small Press Review for nearly twenty years. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he lived for fifteen years in North Hollywood, California, before moving to his present home in Port Charlotte, Florida, which he shares with his bicycle and his white cat, Spike. He has a blog at http://poeticks.com.
M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part Two
Mathematics is not a science. Is counting mathematics? I’d call it “pre-mathematics.” No, make that, “prerithmetic.” As should be obvious by now, I am still in my “You-Can’t-Criticize-Me-’Cause-I’m-Just-Playin’” operating mode. To get myself started, I just made a grab for the nearest thought happening to be in my brain about this blog’s subjects, poetry and [...]
M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part One
I’ve been suffering from writer’s block lately. Can’t seem to get nuttin’ done. So I’m going to do something different for this entry–at least I think it’s different. Others may not be able to tell it from my usual practice.
M@h*(pOet)?ica–Music and Autobiography
I’ve always loved music, believing with Nietzsche that without it, life would be a mistake. And I have dealt with it in poems of mine going back to the following, which I included in my 1966 collection of visual haiku, poemns: It happened that I had several such poems all in a file because I’d [...]
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