{"id":1942539,"date":"2023-06-02T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-poet-laureate-dedicates-ode-to-europa-for-nasa-mission-to-jupiters-icy-moon\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:30:38","slug":"us-poet-laureate-dedicates-ode-to-europa-for-nasa-mission-to-jupiters-icy-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-poet-laureate-dedicates-ode-to-europa-for-nasa-mission-to-jupiters-icy-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"US poet laureate writes ode to Europa for NASA&#8217;s mission to Jupiter&#8217;s icy moon."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a 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              <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>U.S. Poet Laureate Writes Poem for NASA Spacecraft<\/h2>\n<p>By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you start a poem like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter\u2019s icy moon Europa, she felt a rush of excitement at the honor, followed by bewilderment at the seeming enormity of the task.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday night, exactly one year later in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, across the street from the U.S. Capitol, Limon\u2019s 21-line creation, \u201cIn Praise of Mystery: a Poem for Europa,\u201d was unveiled and <a 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Jupiter&#8217;s icy moon.&#8221;>free-verse ode consisting<\/a> of seven three-line stanzas, or tercets, will be engraved in Limon\u2019s handwriting on the exterior of the Europa Clipper, due for launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October 2024.<\/p>\n<h3>Uniting Two Water Worlds<\/h3>\n<p>Limon\u2019s \u201cPoem for Europa\u201d is less a meditation on science \u2013 though its first line seems to allude to a rocket launch \u2013 as it is an ode to nature and the awe it can inspire in humankind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Except for its title, it does not mention Europa explicitly but refers to its place among Jupiter\u2019s natural satellites, and to the commonality of water that it shares with Earth: \u201cO second moon, we too are made of water, of vast and beckoning seas.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It concludes: \u201cWe, too are made of wonders, of great \/ and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds \/ of a need to call out through the dark.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to point back to the Earth, and I think the biggest part of the poem is that it unites those two things,\u201d she told Reuters in an interview in the Library of Congress poetry room hours before the piece was unveiled. \u201cIt unites both space and this incredible planet that we live on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Limon, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry collection \u201cThe Carrying,\u201d recounted great difficulty when she first tried composing the Europa poem at a writers retreat in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Her breakthrough came on a suggestion from her husband, who Limon said encouraged her to \u201cstop writing a NASA poem\u201d and to create \u201ca poem that you would write\u201d instead. \u201cThat changed everything,\u201d she remembered.<\/p>\n<p>The only firm parameters NASA gave her were to relate something about the mission, to make it understandable to readers as young as 9, and to write no more than 200 words.<\/p>\n<p>At the Library of Congress on Thursday night, Limon said she considers the Europa commission \u201cthe greatest honor and privilege of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting earlier on what the assignment meant, Limon said she wonders at \u201call of the human eyes and human ears and human hearts that will receive this poem and \u2026 it\u2019s the audience that really overwhelms me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A writer of Mexican ancestry, Limon became the first Latina U.S. poet laureate and the 24th individual to hold the title when she was first appointed in September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>begin when you\u2019re asked to write a poem for a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa?\u201d said U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon, who felt both honored and overwhelmed by the 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