Among the Stars

Stellar recordings of works about the cosmos and humanity's ventures out into it. Many of these poems appear in the anthology Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (2020).

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"Planetarium"
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Rich, Adrienne. The Will to Change. New York: Norton, 1971.

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"Those two solitary men..."
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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"In November..."; "Aboard, I read..."; "This man..."; "Thus I built..."; "Even if he had..."
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Excerpts from Book Two of Voyager. Differs from published version. Erasure of Kurt Waldheim's memoirs.

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Reddy, Srikanth. Voyager. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

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"Homeland Security"
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Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Stairway to Heaven. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.

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Opening Remarks: on social justice, NASCAR, NASA, and space exploration
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"Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We're Going to Mars)"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Giovanni, Nikki. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

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"Next Generations"
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Armantrout, Rae. Up To Speed. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.

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"Space Shuttle"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Absence, That Which Never"
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Shapero, Natalie. Hard Child. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2017.

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"Halley's Comet"
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Differs from published version.
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Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1991.
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"Moon of No Return"
Reader
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Young, Al. Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1992.
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"Cómo es posible" / "How is it possible"
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Otta, Tilsa. The Hormone of Darkness. Translated by Farid Matuk. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2024. 

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"Afrofuturism"
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Kearney, Douglas. Buck Studies​. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2016.

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"SunRiders"
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Herrera, Juan Felipe. "SunRiders." Plume, no. 134, October 2022. Web. Accessed 1 March 2023.

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"Ode to the Alien"
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Ackerman, Diane. Wife of Light. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
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Juan Felipe Herrera
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Paola Valenzuela
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Nikki Giovanni
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Christine Krikliwy
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Forrest Gander
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Hannah Ensor
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Diane Ackerman at the Poetry Center Guest Cottage
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Lois Shelton
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Natalie Shapero
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Patri Hadad
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Srikanth Reddy
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Christine Krikliwy
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Hannah Ensor
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Tilsa Otta
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Paola Valenzuela
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Al Young
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Rae Armantrout
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Christine Krikliwy
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