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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Space Docking Poetry?

This is too sweet:

The first Chinese space docking today (Nov. 2) inspired not just national and scientific pride, but some romantic sentiment as well.

Several different Chinese newspapers and commentators have described the Tiangong 1 ("Heavenly Palace") and Shenzhou 8 ("Divine Vessel") spacecraft, which linked up in orbit today for the first time, as "lovers" making a "kiss in space," state newspaper Xinhua reported.

"Tiangong, my lover, for the arrival of this moment -- wait for me. I'm coming," reads a poem called "Lovers' Talk," published in Tianfu Zaobao, a Sichuan-based daily, according to Xinhua.
Posted by Peter at 7:43 AM
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Peter Pereira is a poet and family physician in Seattle. His books include What's Written on the Body (Copper Canyon 2007), Saying the World (Copper Canyon 2003), and The Lost Twin (Grey Spider 2000).
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Some Poems Online

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January 26, 2012 - Cheap Wine and Poetry, a reading with Martha Silano, Greg Bem, Amber Flame at Richard Hugo House
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October 8th, 2012: Saturday 4pm -- Wordstock Festival, Convention Center, Portland, Oregon. Poetry Reading sponsored by The Attic.

October 5th, 2012: The Human Face of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, guest faculty.










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