Current in Zionsville (IN)
February 25, 2024
Brick Street Poetry, a Zionsville nonprofit that provides local writers an opportunity to connect and share experiences through poetry, recently had a collaborative poem sent to the moon.On Feb. 15, the poem "Following the Rivers Flow" was sent to the moon via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It landed on the moon Feb. 22. Joyce Brinkman, executive director of Brick Street Poetry, is the original creator of the poem.
The poem displayed at SullivanMunce Cultural Center at 225 W. Hawthorne
Times, The (Noblesville, IN)
April 27, 2023
One can't help but think heavenly thoughts when they see some of the light post banners on Zionsville's Main Street right now. The banners feature haiku poetry superimposed over photos of the galaxies from the Hubble space telescope. The poets who wrote those haikus and IUPUI Physics Professor, Dr. Andrew Gavrin, will lead an Out of This World Walking Tour Sunday, with a stop at each banner. At each stop, the poet will read his or her work and Dr. Gavrin will talk about the image on the banner.
Banner Graphic (Greencastle, IN)
February 2, 2022
Some poetry lovers might say Joe Heithaus's work is out of this world. Heavenly. Otherworldly.Come this summer, they'll be literally correct. "Silence," a sonnet written by the DePauw English professor, is headed to the moon, part of a poetic payload arranged by Samuel Peralta, a physicist, entrepreneur and art aficionado who already has deposited some of his own written words there.
The poem will be etched on nickel microfiche, which should last millions of years, Peralta told
Butler Collegian: Butler University (Indianapolis, IN)
February 9, 2022
First-year seminar professor Jessica Reed is among editors of poetry anthology to be sent to the moon. Photo courtesy of nationalgeographic.com. RYANN BAHNLINE | STAFF REPORTER | rbahnline@butler.edu
By fall of 2023, cosmic time capsules of art, music and poetry from around the world will be on the south pole of the moon. The Polaris Collection, a three volume anthology, will be sent into space as part of the Lunar Codex Project. Jessica Reed, a first-year-seminar professor at
