Dark Sky Land Podcast

Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, NM, and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. She was the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project, a not-for-profit that from 2013 to 2020 conducted weekly poetry classes in battered families and homeless shelters in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Elizabeth's third collection of poems, "There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral", will be published by Free Verse Editions in 2024.

The night sky, expansive and infinitely fascinating, has been an object of human curiosity and wonderment for millennia. Before the advent of modern technology and the light pollution it produces, the clear, dark sky provided an awe-inspiring vista that incited countless myths and theories among cultures worldwide. 

The loss of dark skies is so painful, that astronomers coined a new term for it: 'Noctalgia', is a feature of the modern age. By Paul Sutter, for SPACE.COM.

Researchers found that songbirds including the Northern Cardinal (pictured here) that live year-round in the urban core of San Antonio, Texas, had eyes about 5% smaller than members of the same species from the less bright outskirts.

Offered by Washington State University for PHYS.ORG 

Image credit: Jennifer Phillips, Washington State University.

A transdisciplinary time-based exhibition, featuring works by astronomers and artists focused on a Night Sky Environmental Project in the Southwestern region of New Mexico.

By Ramsay de Give and Josephine Sedgwick for The New York Times, April 17, 2023.

DARK SKY LAND Exhibition Series is a transdisciplinary time-based exhibition, featuring works by astronomers and artists focused on a Night Sky Environmental Project in New Mexico. The project offers an innovative situation where art, science, nature, culture, community, advocacy, and the unknown converge.