Poetry and Mathematics

Whenever someone learns that I'm a poet who teaches mathematics -- to "support my poetry habit", as I like to say -- I always get a quizzical look, then, after a moments thought the person usually says, "Well it kind of makes sense. There is a mathematical element to poetry."

Here's an excerpt from my memoir about Denise Levertov which talks about this mre directly:

http://www.ilrmagazine.net/dsound/issue20_ds2.php