Our February speaker is Skyscraper member Gerry Dyck, who will give a two-part presentation on poetry and astronomy. In the first part, entitled “The Poet and the Sky,” he will recite and comment upon examples of poetry with astronomical themes – from ancient Egypt, mediaeval Persia, the King James Bible, to major English-speaking poets such as Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost.

The presentation will conclude with a cycle of original poetry and music called The Ancient Face of Night. It is a new arrangement of music, words and images originally composed for the visit of Clyde Tombaugh and the 75th anniversary of the AAVSO.