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Christopher Cokinos

Christopher Cokinos is the author of The Underneath, a poetry collection, and co-editor of Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. He’s working on a book about the Moon and has recently published poetry and prose in The Chariton Review and Sky & Telescope.

Poetry in the Abstract

Poetry in the Abstract

What happens when scientists write haiku?

by Christopher Cokinos | Thursday, April 15, 2021
Prozac for the Planet

Prozac for the Planet

Can geoengineering make the climate happy?

by Christopher Cokinos | Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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'HD 11964 d' by Any Other Name

What to call the planets we find beyond our solar system?

by Christopher Cokinos | Monday, December 01, 2008

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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