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A pleasure to have my TextArt poem The Slant and the Sly included in this issue. Huge thanks to editor Danielle McMahon for her collaborative engagement with my submission, suggesting and sharing ideas about how to include this. I found it a creative and supportive process – and a model, I would think, for working with those who submit. Having said this, I know how much time Danielle gave to that process (and I am sure with many others) and understand how demanding it is, so probably not sustainable!

To view the whole issue either as a pdf or web version, go here: https://www.engineidling.net/current

The following is from a sequence Wherever the Stone is Awake where I find/interpret various poets’ reflections on poetry (you can download a free pdf from this site ‘Poetry Collections: free pdf downloads’):

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My thanks to International Times and Rupert for posting today here: https://internationaltimes.it/human-capital-stock/

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I’ve now written a companion maths poetry pamphlet to my previous Math + the Soul of Poetry. The former is a collection of almost all list poems (with occasional erasure/other), whereas Math (+s) + Ulam ranges much more widely with, for example, some TextArt fun on the Latus Rectum which is, as we all know, the line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve…

Leave the milk, steal the cream
Don’t kill the goose, don’t skin the sheep
Don’t wanna get arrested in Omaha
Don’t have my hands broke again in Arkansas