Outer Space: 100 Poems

Honoured to be reading at this event, not only my own poem, but one by poet and astronomer Rebecca Elson.

Anyone can attend!

Outer Space: 100 Poems

Join us for an exclusive reading from Outer Space: 100 Poems, published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Midge Goldberg, featuring a one-time-only lineup of contributors from across the globe: Ned Balbo (Baltimore, Md.), John Curl (Berkeley, Calif.), John Foy (N.Y., N.Y.), Dr. Alice Gorman (Adelaide, South Australia), A.M. Juster (Nashville, Tenn., for now), Donna Kane (Rolla, British Columbia), Janet Kenny (Point Vernon, Queensland) , Leslie Monsour (Los Angeles, Calif.), Victoria Moul (Paris, France), Jay Ruzesky (Duncan, British Columbia), Dr. Yun Wang (Glendale, Calif.), and Anton Yakovlev (Lyndhurst, N.J.).

Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space travel are used as metaphors for our feelings of love, loneliness, adventurousness, and awe. This collection reaches across time and cultures to illuminate how we think about outer space, and ourselves. Learn more at cambridge.org/outerspace

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Interview and Article – CBC News

Thank you so much Betsy Trumpener for the interview on CBC radio where I talk about my experience of having a poem published in Scientific American.

You can listen to the interview at the following link, where it’s mentioned in the news segment at about 1:13, and then in full at 1:52.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-109-daybreak-north/clip/15930031-daybreak-north-august-10-full-episode

Thanks also for the written article published on CBC BC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-poet-scientific-american-1.6519853

Today in Science

My poem “On Visible Light,” published in the July, 2022 issue of Scientific American, made their July 13, 2022 Today in Science newsletter. Right there with, among other amazing science news, the James Webb.