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Becoming Real~
Really pleased to be joining Duke University Press’ “Practices” series with a book of essays forthcoming July! . . . Going to the Moon And what an adventure in nonfiction for this poet! “In 2022, poet Sally Ashton learned that one of her poems would be included in a time capsule to be sent to…
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Happy to be included: Pushcart Prize Nominations from The Fortnightly Review
Congratulations to the nominees! We have a lot to celebrate as we approach the ending of the first year of the revived Fortnightly Review, and part of that celebration has taken the form of nominating six of our installments for the Pushcart Prize! For those who don’t know, the Pushcart Press is one of the…
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Soft Landing
Here’s something new from me…a sort of hybrid haibun, published by The Fortnightly Review, the revived 19th-century literary magazine founded by Anthony Trollope. I hope it conveys somewhat my recent experience. Dispatch from the Moon: Soft Landing Haiku moon tonightI lie awake until dawncounting syllables Lunar Codex: A time capsule of art headed to the…
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On the Moon!
March 2, 2025 Hard to comprehend: My poem, “4.6 Billion years,” selected as part of the Lunar Codex SERENITY archive, was onboard the NASA CLPS-TO-19D mission, launched January 15. It landed in Mare Crisium on the Moon in the early morning hours of March 2. Here is a photo sent shortly after by the Blue…
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Launching to the Moon!
My poem “4.6 Billion Years” is off on the first of three separate space missions. I’ll be watching–virtually–Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA, SpaceX, and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, for…
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A new review at NewPages
-thanks Jami Macarty “Book Review :: Listening to Mars by Sally Ashton” Review by Jami Macarty Sally Ashton’s fifth book Listening to Mars offers readers “thought experiments otherwise known as poems” while “trying to understand” the COVID-19 health crisis, which brought with it death, uncertainty, anxiety, social upheaval, and political protest. Across the globe, “People…
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The Hive Poetry Collective
Cool time interview with Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Farnaz FatemiListening to Mars
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On The Margin: Interview with Ethelbert Miller!
Discussing poetry and my latest, “Listening to Mars.” Listen Here or on Apple podcasts
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