Poetry Puzzles
Lisa Lajeunesse

Proceedings of Bridges 2018: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 645–648
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Abstract

In this workshop, participants learn different ways of combining poetry with standard logical and numerical puzzles, so that the solution to the puzzle unscrambles the words in a poem. Participants will begin by learning how to solve such puzzles so that they are able to create their own puzzles to encrypt their poetry. Participants are encouraged to bring one or two shorter poems to work with, although suitable poems will also be provided. The goal of the workshop is for participants to take away skills to create new poetry puzzles, and begin their own explorations into using new types of puzzles to encode poetry.

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