Julie Swarstad Johnson
Melissa GoodrichJulie Swarstad Johnson is the author of the poetry collections "The Night Season" (2027) and "Pennsylvania Furnace" (2019), and co-editor of "Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight" (2020). She has been Poet in Residence at Lowell Observatory and Gettysburg National Park, and she was a crew member for Imagination 1, a simulated lunar mission with an all-artist crew at Biosphere 2. She lives in Tucson, where she works as an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan
Books:
The Night Season
Poems
Poetry
UNM Press
January 2027
ISBN 9780826370532
Paperback, 88 pages
"The poems in this collection fiercely advocate a munificent wonder and respect for the natural world from our small vantage in a vast universe"--
Beyond Earth's Edge
The Poetry of Spaceflight
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
January 2020
ISBN 9780816539192
Paperback, 0 pages
"Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures the violence of blast-off, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond through poetry.
The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across the decades, and into the present"-- More/less
