Reading Hall C
A MANIFEST FOR THE MOON
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.
Curatorial Notes
The Readings sections showcase a selection of works from "The Peregrine Collection" and "The Nova Collection", representing only a small fraction of the total works archived by the Lunar Codex.
Reading Hall C highlights short-form works by poets and writers. The included works form a selection of touchstone poems, some of my own favorites, bookmarks of discovery, favorite works composed by other writers, and poems I wish I'd written.
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Works are identified by respective launch mission and Lunar Codex collection as follows:
AM1 - Artemis 1 Mission (The Orion Collection)
PM1 - Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 (The Peregrine Collection)
IM1 - Intuitive Machines Nova-C Mission 1 (The Nova Collection)
GM1 - Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 (The Polaris Collection)
MANIFEST
THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
by
Samuel Peralta
2010
IM1, PM1, GM1
Selected and read by Rysa Walker, along with a poem by Margaret Atwood, for the Shanghai Book Fair and International Literary Week, August 2017
Translated to and read as Chinese version by Zhao Yang
HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL
by
Ada Limón
2015
IM1, GM1
Inducted into the Lunar Codex on April 18, 2021, Ada Limón was named by the U.S. Library of Congress on July 12, 2022, as the 24th Poet Laureate of the U.S.
WONDROUS
by
Sarah Freligh
2012
IM1, GM1
THE INNUENDO OF OWLS
by
Jenné Andrews
2011
IM1, GM1
NIGHT OF THE SCORPION
by
Nissim Ezekiel
1965
IM1, GM1
THE MANY THINGS MY FATHER LOVED
by
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
2020
IM1, GM1
GREEN ROADS
by
Dulce Maria Menendez
2013
IM1, GM1
FOLLOWING THE RIVERS' FLOW
A Collaborative Poem
by
Joyce Brinkman, Mark Neely, Orlando Menes, Shari Wagner, Don Platt, Kevin McKelvey, Mitchell Douglas, Matthew Brennan, Marcus Wicker, Laurel Smith
2015
IM1, GM1
RIVER OF SONGS
by
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
2021
IM1, GM1
A SINGAPOREAN'S LOVE AFFAIR
by
Kelly Kaur
2021
IM1, GM1
MY MOM
by
Lali Michaeli
2022
IM1, GM1
- Lali Tsipi Michaeli is an Israeli poet, born in Georgia and immigrating to Israel at the age of seven. She has published six poetry books, and in various translations in the U.S., France, Italy, Georgia, Russia, Romania, Iran, and the Ukraine.
THE LADY READS MY PALM
by
Grace Cavalieri
2020
IM1, GM1