A few of my favorite authors:

Marianne MooreFlannery O'ConnorFyodor Dostoyevsky
W. H. AudenKurt VonnegutGrace Paley
Studs TerkelKarel ČapekStanisław Lem

Mathematics in poetry (by poets):

“Numbers and Faces” (W. H. Auden)
“The Icosasphere” (Marianne Moore)

Mathematics in poetry (by mathematicians):

“The Kiss Precise” (Frederick Soddy)
A poetic solution to a poetic problem posed on MathOverflow

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