Long time FSP member Erica Jolly has a new poem “Daddy Yankee” published on-line in Intersections – Poetry with Mathematics. Erica’s poem draws from an essay by Matthew Peppe in the Special Issue of Lapham’s Quarterly about Alexander Hamilton and contrasts the character of the theatrical Hamilton with the behavior of the character who inspired him.
The poem begins:
I draw in my breath in disbelief.
How does one take in all those numbers?
How is it possible for an island of this size
to have a debt of seventy six billion dollars?
Click here to read the full text of Erica’s poem.