I’m delighted that my poem “So Long to the Good Old Moon” has found a home at Ascent literary magazine. (Update: This poem is also in my book Sugar Fix.) This poem takes its title from a headline in the July 4, 1969 issue of Life magazine – one of a trio I have, thanks to some creative gift-giving by my daughter, covering the Apollo 11 mission.
As you’ll see, the poem itself has little to do with the moon, but it has a lot to do with giving up our old ways of thinking about things – or at least, my experience with that.
Read “So Long to the Good Old Moon” in Ascent or hear me read the poem in the following video from Fin Hall’s “Poets Meet the Hosts,” a pandemic-era event featuring open mic hosts from around the world. Just press the arrow on the image below, and the video starts at my reading of the poem:
Incidentally, one of these Life moon issues also includes James Dickey’s poem, “The Moon Ground” which was commissioned by ABC. You can see James Dickey reading it here.
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