WASHINGTON : When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, she felt a rush of excitement at the honor, followed by bewilderment at the seeming enormity of the task."Where do you start a poem like that?" she recalled th
By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecra.
By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecra.
By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecra.
Limon's "Poem for Europa" is less a meditation on science - though its first line seems to allude to a rocket launch - as it is an ode to nature and the awe it can inspire in humankind.