This month, August 2023, has two full moons - which means we get to experience the rare "Blue Moon." We're using this opportunity to wax philosophic on the Moon and all it inspires - from Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodnight Moon" to the poetry of Shelley, Stevenson, and Plath. We'll go through the evocative, poetic names for each month's full moon and their origins ("the cold moon," "the harvest moon," "the worm moon" etc.) and end with some incredibly beautiful music a la Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune. 

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https://www.space.com/blue-moon-supermoon-august-2023#:~:text=The%20Blue%20Moon%20will%20rise,slightly%20larger%20and%20brighter%20than 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprising-ingenuity-behind-goodnight-moon-180961923/ 

"To the Moon" - Percy Shelley

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/to-the-moon/ 

"The Moon" - Robert Louis Stevenson

https://poets.org/poem/moon 

"The Moon and the Yew Tree" - Sylvia Plath

https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/sp-moon.htm 

Farmers Almanac List of the Names for the Moon

https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-names 

"Clair de Lune" - Paul Verlaine 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_de_lune_(poem) 

"Clair de Lune" performed by Pascal Roge 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c977QdbTImU