Pi & Piem

Letterpress poster by Amanda White

via green chair press

“For National Poetry Month I’ve been noticing where poetry showed up in every day life. Recently in the New Yorker, Calvin Trillin wrote about pi day and mentioned:

There is a form of poetry known as a piem, in which pi’s digits are represented by the number of letters in each word. The best-known piem renders the first fifteen digits of pi as “How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.”


Read the rest here.

Image of the Night: Pie on Pi Day

Nothing beats sharing a slice of Mrs. Smith’s Cherry Pie served on Pi Day!

Pi Day

A Brief History of pi

“Pi has been known for almost 4000 years—but even if we calculated the number of seconds in those 4000 years and calculated pi to that number of places, we would still only be approximating its actual value.”

Here’s a brief history of finding pi on the Exploratorium’s site, more on the pi Day site. and a Facebook page.