What is a linear poem?

PoemasLineales.pptx

On the left are the bilingual slides presented for the Oregon Poetry Association on October 4th, 2025 describing linear poems.

Introducing The Linear PoemIn this article I introduce the linear poem, a poetic form I developed in fall 2023 as a pedagogical tool for high-school students. The linear poem is a poem which represents an integer valued linear function, treating the line numbers as inputs and the linguistic units in a line as outputs. Two examples of linear poems are given as well as the steps taken to produce them. By interpreting poetic forms as integer-valued functions as is done in this article, interdisciplinary pedagogy can be achieved, allowing educators and students to express mathematical ideas such as slope-intercept form in a creative manner. Interpreting poetry as integer-valued functions could also lead to advancements in machine learning applications around the generation and analysis of poetry.

Click the abstract on the left or go to https://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.PTKO6160 to read the 2025 article "Introducing The Linear Poem" where Cristian Ramirez Rodriguez introduces the linear poem.

¿Qué es un poema lineal?

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