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Exploring the TypeVerse: When Typography Meets AI Poetry
Back in January I wrote about my typographical designs where letters do double duty and how I was collaborating with…
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When Ghalib meets AI: One student’s experiment
In my previous post about rediscovering Ghalib through metal and rap, I mentioned sharing his work in my creativity class.…
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The Hidden Metal in Ghalib’s Heart
Mirza Ghalib, was a celebrated poet who lived in Delhi in the 19th century Delhi. He was as famous for…
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Double Vision: A Creative Dance of Typography & AI
I love playing with type and words. Recently I got obsessed with creating a particular kind of typographic design—layouts where…
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Oops! Double Trouble with Double Dactyls OR Learning from AI’s Creative Mistakes
As headlines swirl about AI chatbots misrepresenting Anne Frank (Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not…
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The Mirror Cracked: AI, Poetry, and the Illusion of Depth
In a recent episode of Silver Lining for Learning on Hybrid Intelligence, I was going on about how AI systems…
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Amusings & other creations (from the early web)
I have been blogging for 15 years now, but I have had a website for much longer than that. I…
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An Euclidean coincidence
FYI, this is a somewhat pointless blog post around a somewhat funny coincidence that popped into my life the other…
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ChatGPT3 writes a Mathematical Proof (in verse)
Many years ago I got interested in writing poetry about mathematics (all archived on my Math-Poetry page). Just to be…
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Silly me: Narrated poems for our crazy times
Shreya and I created a video a few months back consisting of a series of narrated poems written by her…
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Reflections
– afternoon walklingering on the shore linetime for reflection – – Reflections © Punya Mishra. All photos taken with my…
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Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing…
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A cosmologist worries (about infinity)
A cosmologist worries (about infinity)December 2019 They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars–on stars where no human race…
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Perfect Vacuum (OR who wrote this poem?)
Note (November 16, 2024): At the bottom of this post are some variants of the original poem, as re-interpreted by…
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Meta poems too
Layout is the first to go Lines of poetry are sacred to both the author and the reader. To alter…
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4 AM: A poem
Note: This poem was lightly edited March 10, 2025. 4 AMJuly 17, 2019 The stupid smoke detectorsBeep IncessantlyThere are two…
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Meta Poetry: I and II
This sentence refers to itself. This sentence declares that this blog post is about 2 poems I wrote recently. Both…
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Creativity is greatly valued: A poem
Creativity is greatly valuedCreativity is greatly valued For his sharpness His ability to look beyond The surface And willingness…
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Collaborative Haiku
A silent white boardScribble a first line, and waitEmergent haiku. Last Friday, goofing off between meetings, I scribbled one line,…
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Of raindrops and dying flowers
The rainfall in June –the poems I’ve pasted to wallspeel off, but leave traces.~ Basho All photos taken with my…
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Failed Haiku
Failed Haiku Five syllables firstSecond one has seven moreA failed Haiku! So close… almost had it. In keeping with the…
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Connections: Photo Haiku from Summer 2016
For the past 17 years (with just two exceptions) my summers have been spent teaching in the MAET program. 2016 was…
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Momentary Lapis Lazuli of Reason: Academia for better or verse
Graduate school can be a grind. Academia can be dull and dreary. But not if poetry and parody are brought…
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Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava
An amazing presentation by Manjul Bhargava (Fields medal winner in Mathematics) to school children in India. See how he effortlessly…
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Robert Frost writes a paper Robert Frost writes a paper
First it was Lewis Carroll and Jabberwocky and now it is Robert Frost and his poem Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening…
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Jabberwocky goes to graduate school Jabberwocky goes to graduate school
The 5th floor of Erickson Hall is a fun place to be. Typically a bunch of graduate students hang out…
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Who wrote this poem? Who wrote this poem?
Back when I was a graduate student I got bitten by the bug of palindromic poetry – poems that read…
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A published poet! Yes! A published poet! Yes!
I am now, officially, a published poet! My poem on imaginary numbers (The Mathematical…
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Celebrating Euler’s birthday Celebrating Euler’s birthday
Google has a new doodle out today (the 15th of April) to celebrate the 306th birth anniversary of Leonhard Euler,…
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Wislawa Szymborska, 1923 – 2012 Wislawa Szymborska, 1923 – 2012
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska passed away a couple of days ago. I first heard of her on an NPR show…