Tag: poetry

• 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…

  Sally Ashton

  March 6, 2025

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  LifeShip, Lunar Codex, Moon, on the Moon, poetry

• The Hive Poetry Collective

  Cool time interview with Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Farnaz FatemiListening to Mars

  Sally Ashton

  August 13, 2024

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  Interview, poetry, poetry book

• Interview at “The Mackinaw”

  Interview: Sally Ashton, On Listening to Mars The Mackinaw: Tell us something about your writing journey and how prose poetry became a part of it. Sally Ashton: I began what could be described as a serious pursuit of poetry after my youngest of three children entered elementary school. Both time and attention are fraught with little ones…

  Sally Ashton

  May 22, 2024

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  creative-writing, Interview, Listening to Mars, poem, poetry, prose, Prose poem, The Mackinaw, writing

• “Listening to Mars” review by Addie Mahmassani

  Sally Ashton

  March 24, 2024

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  book review, Mars, poetry, poetry book

• DMQ Review Fall 2022 Craft Essay Issue

  On the craft essay Don’t tell me the moon is shining . . . In a letter to his brother, Franz Kafka passed along some memorable writing advice, later paraphrased in an apocryphal quote, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of moonlight on broken glass.” Don’t tell me . .…

  Sally Ashton

  August 18, 2022

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  craft essay, DMQ Review, poetry