Reading Hall A
A MANIFEST FOR THE MOON
The Lunar Codex uses digital and analog technology to preserve art, books, music, and more, enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon. It is a message-in-a-bottle to the future.
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Curatorial Notes
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The Readings sections showcase a selection of works from the Peregrine and Νουα collections, representing only a small fraction of the total works archived by the Lunar Codex.
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Reading Hall A highlights short-form works by poets and writers. The included works form a selection of touchstone poems, some of my own favorites, bookmarks of discovery, favorite works composed by other writers, and poems I wish I'd written.
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Works are identified by respective launch mission and Lunar Codex collection as follows:
AM1 - Artemis 1 Mission (The Orion Collection)
PM1 - Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 (The Peregrine Collection)
IM1 - NASA CLPS-2 Mission 1 (The Nova Collection)
GM1 - Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 (The Polaris Collection)
MANIFEST
LONG PROGRAM
by
Samuel Peralta
February 2010
XM1, GM1
THAT BRUNCH WE DIDN'T HAVE
by
Molly Gaudry
June 2012
XM1, GM1
POSTPARTUM
for Eli Haiden Foutz
by
Ellen Hopkins
12 August 2004
XM1, GM1
ON ALTERATIONS
by
Stacy Ericson
7 November 2011
XM1, GM1
MARRIAGE
by
Christopher Reilley
2019
XM1, GM1
CICADAS
by
Shaindel Beers
2009
XM1, GM1
EPHITHALAMIUM WITH SWAN SONG
by
Kara Candito
2014
XM1, GM1
WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY
NO HABLO ESPAÑOL
by
Geffrey Davis
2016
PM1, GM1
LOVE SOLSTICE
by
R. Jay Slais
2016
PM1, GM1
IN THE KETTLE, THE SHRIEK
by
Hannah Stephenson
2013
XM1, GM1
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Image from the painting
"Snow as a Girl"
Aron Wiesenfeld (2011)
Oil on canvas
56" x 45"
IM1, GM1
ALL GROWN UP
by
Jesus T. Peralta
2011
XM1, GM1
CHERITA: HARVEST
by
Gabriel Gadfly
2017
XM1, GM1
YOUR LOVE FINDS ITS WAY BACK
by
Sierra DeMulder
2016
XM1, GM1
ESTARÉ CALLADO
by
OSUN x Semaphore
2021
PM1, XM1, GM1
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From Sonnet for the Unconscious War and Other Collaborations with the Automaton
PM1, GM1
OSUN by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne based on OpenAI GPT-2 345M parameter model. Training text selection and editing of OSUN output by Samuel Peralta (Semaphore)
OSUN is a set of literary experiments exploring human + AI collaboration in art
THIS CITY
by
Eugenia Leigh
2017
XM1, GM1
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SILENCE
by
Joseph Heithaus
From Poison Sonnets (David Robert Books, 2012)
XM1, GM1
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