From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:12:51 -0500

Greetings, Poets and Poetry Readers -
  In a page one article in the Arts Section of today's New York Times titled "Fibs Sprout on Web," you can read about a poetry form based upon the mathematical Fibonacci sequence http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/books/14fibo.html The article features Gregory K. Pincus who in his GottaBook blog recently invited readers to submit "Fibs," six-line poems using this mathematical progression. Apparently a week ago someone linked www.slashdot.org to the blog. According to the article, "Fibs are sprouting all over the Internet."
  You might also want to check the CCBC Archives http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ccbcnet/archives.asp for a message I wrote on July 8, 2005, about Barbara Juster Esbensen's marvelous book
"Echoes for the Eye: Poems to Celebrate Patterns in Nature" written by Barbara Juster Esbensen with artwork by Helen K. Davie (HarperCollins, 1996). In "Echoes for the Eye" Esbensen celebrated Nature's spirals, branches, polygons, meanders and circles as visible evidence of the Fibonacci series.
  I keep hoping "Echoes for the Eye" will available in print again someday. Perhaps the new popular interest in Fibs will encourage that to happen - and soon! If so, I'll be in line to buy multiple copies. I keep recommending "Echoes for the Eye" to others, and then they have to wait in a virtual line for a public library copy.
  Warmly, Ginny
 

Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
 
 
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