New broadside by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón!
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The Library of Congress and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón have embarked on a mission with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to send a poem to space! “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” was released at the Library of Congress on June 1, 2023 in celebration of the poem’s engraving on NASA’s Europa Clipper. The spacecraft is set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024 and by 2030, it will be in orbit around Jupiter.
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This broadside was printed with a photopolymer plate on a Vandercook Proofing Press in Lexington, KY by Weight of Bees, a tendril of The Field Office. Printed in an edition of 300, each copy is signed and numbered. The design is based on photos of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
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Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón was also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States.
"Writing this poem was one of the greatest honors of my life, but also one of the most difficult tasks I've ever been assigned. Eventually, what made the poem come together was realizing that in pointing toward other planets, stars, and moons, we are also recognizing the enormous gift that is our planet earth. To point outward is also to point inward."
— Ada Limón