James Ph. Kotsybar

James Ph. Kotsybar, first poet (honored by NASA) to be published to another planet, has verse orbiting Mars at the MAVEN team’s request and through worldwide Internet voting in the Hubble Telescope’s Mission Log, on its 20th anniversary. He was awarded and featured in the NASA Centaur Art Challenge. Other honors include State Poetry Society of Michigan and Balticon Competitions. Invited to read before French Troubadours (Europe’s oldest literary institution), in their founding city of Toulouse, at EuroScience Open Forum, he earned a standing return invitation to this European symposium, and he once sang William Blake’s poetry with Allen Ginsberg.