1. Rotative Levitator: This is a collection of ten million sonnets, each one of them a palindrome. An homage to cent mille millards de poèmes, by Raymond Queneau, it is the first such collection in the English language. The user can explore the collection interactively: one can generate a random palindromic sonnet in the collection by clicking a button, or else one can cycle through the different versions in the collection by clicking on any one of its lines. In this way, one can navigate the totality of the collection and read whichever sonnet one wishes to pin down: it is an indexed collection. Currently, the interactive applet is housed here, but if it were selected for your space, I would be happy to unpublish it from my (very low traffic) personal website, and I would be happy to share the code of the applet, so that it can be embedded in the space.

Note: The connection to mathematics is not particularly deep here, of course: ten versions of seven pairs of lines generate 10^7 possible sonnets.

2. As my Three Children Tidy Up their Rooms: This is also an interactive app. The reader reads a prose poem that sets up a scene of chaos. Then the reader presses a button to witness an anagrammatic transformation of the prose into a sonnet. This latter sonnet is a self-describing, self-enumerating, truthful, rectangular monospace sonnet I composed as my three children were indeed tidying up their rooms. (The prose poem came later, when I had the idea that the anagrammatic transformation of the prosaic chaos into the perfectly rectangular sonnet would be visually apt for capturing the scene, conceptually.) The user can then see the rooms return to chaos, and so on. The interactive applet is currently housed here, and the same remarks apply.

Note: Mathematics are a bit more integral to this poem, even if the concepts are not particularly deep.

Note: AI was not used in any of this work. What’s more: AI is incredibly inept at this kind of work.

Bio: Pedro Poitevin is a bilingual poet, translator, and mathematician originally from Guatemala. His work explores the expressive possibilities of poetic constraint across languages and disciplines, and has appeared in Rattle, The Common, Asymptote, River Styx, The Mathematical Intelligencer, and Letras Libres. He is the author of six poetry collections, including Nowhere at Home (Penteract Press, 2023) and Letras griegas (Praxis, 2022), and the recipient of the 2021 Juana Goergen Poetry Prize and the 2025 Premio Internacional de Poesía Rever. He teaches mathematics at Salem State University.