JoAnne Growney: When I'm Quiet Enough to See
As JoAnne Growney looks back on her childhood, growing up on a farm, she sees the varied stimuli of that outdoor environment as a key component of her interpretation of beauty. Although she has loved poetry since childhood, her college scholarship opportunities were in mathematics and that became her field. As time permitted, poetry again became part of her life and many of her poems share her support for women’s issues and climate concerns. In the spring of 2019, “Give HER Your Support,” a collection of her feminist math poems, appeared in Math Horizons, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Her most recent poetry activity has been online, integrating the arts and scientific studies—enlarging STEM to STEAM—and found in her blog, Intersections—Poetry with Mathematics at https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com.
