Acknowlegements

Thank you to everyone who helped make this publication possible:

CHARM’s Whitney Birenbaum and Annalies Winny

Em Goheen, who created the beautiful lasercut illustrations inspired by the words of our young poets

Yifan Luo, who designed this publication

Amelia Hillebrant, Suryaa Rangarajan, Sudesna Sujoy, and Madalyn Drewno from MICA ILP’s Drawing Non-Fiction course, who created live illustrations of the workshop

And a special thank you to Margaret W. Carruthers and Alyssa Pagan from the Space Telescope Science Institute, who conducted the workshop where these poems were created.

Images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

The Space Telescope Science Institute is located in Baltimore, Maryland. We are grateful for the opportunity for Baltimore’s youth to experience these images and find inspiration in them.