Dear Friends,
I am always thinking about the moon. My MFA thesis advisor had to helpfully point out that the moon appeared an excessive number of times in the draft of my first book. (Is 50+ times really excessive? Have you seen the moon?)
Today’s roundup of moon poems is in honor of last night’s Harvest Moon Supermoon lunar eclipse, a fantastically neat celestial event. We are now in “eclipse season,” the next one a solar eclipse occurring on October 2nd.
This is also a great opportunity to revisit the wonderful Mary Ruefle on the subject of the moon and lyric poetry: