Poetry Readings

The Lunar Codex uses digital and analog technology to preserve art, books, music, and more, enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon. It is a message-in-a-bottle to the future.

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Curatorial Notes

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This section documents an archive of poetry readings and audio interviews from the long-running program The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress. The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., sponsor this program.

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Several U.S. Poets Laureate and several Witter Bynner fellows are included. The show first aired on WPFW-FM radio in Washington, D.C., and currently features on a special podcast as well as on National Public Radio, and features the poets' discussions of craft and sources of inspiration with host Grace Cavalieri.

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Works are located as to their respective lunar time capsules as follows: 

IM1 - Intuitive Machines Nova-C Mission 1 to Vallis Schrasöteri (The Nova Collection)

PM1 - Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 to Lacus Mortis (The Peregrine Collection)

GM1 - Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 to the Lunar South Pole (The Polaris Collection)