Poems to the Moon

I’ve been thinking about the moon a lot lately as the “Moon Poetry Curator” for the Moon Arts Project. That’s the favorite title I’ve ever had. My job was to find poems about the moon to send to the moon — fascinating, really, since the moon, from the human perspective, has always been up there, essentially unchanged, and has been thought about, sung about, written about, etc. for a long time. The moon hasn’t changed, but we’ve changed, so the poetry is a fascinating reflection of our culture(s). Once I got started, I realized how often I’d written about the moon myself, and so framing the collection with a couple of moon poems felt right to me.

Jim Daniels