Start spreading the news, “Sea of Tranquility” is now number one, king of the hill, top of the heap in New York, New York.
And as all of you are well aware, (Sing along) “If SOT can make it there, it can make it anywhere.”
It’s up to you, New York, New York. (Thanks Frank)
Howard Camner, SFWA poet extraordinaire and co-editor of SOT, started spreading the good news when he wrote, “I just heard from Poets House in New York. If you’re not familiar with Poets House, it’s the hub of poetry in NYC if not the country. Their poetry collection is phenomenal. Every year they have an exhibition called, “The Poetry Showcase” where the best publications of the previous year are featured. People come from all over to see it. “Sea of Tranquility” will be featured in the next showcase exhibition in December. It will also be in their Showcase Catalog which is “the most authoritative resource on poetry works published in 2024.” Following the Showcase SOT will be placed in the permanent collection. So after you leave Kennedy Space Center, head for Manhattan.”
Since you may want to know more about Poets House, here’s what Wiki says:
Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. It contains more than 80,000 volumes of poetry, and is free and open to the public.
Poets House was founded in 1985. With holdings of more than 80,000 volumes, Poets House contains virtually all poetry books published in the U.S. since 1990, plus many that are long out of print dating to the early 20th Century. It also contains literary journals and chapbooks (small books of poetry), and many audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, and DVDs of poetry readings from the mid-twentieth century through today. Visitors to Poets House can hear the voices of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath and hundreds of other poets.
In 1996, the literary newspaper Poetry Flash called Poets House “The House That Holds A Country,” a reference to its dedication to being a caretaker of the nation’s poetic heritage.
Now that SOT is number one, king of the hill, top of the heap, and part of the nation’s poetic heritage it’s time to conquer the Moon in November.
