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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August Super Blue Moon Guide
https://www.space.com/blue-moon-supermoon-august-2023#:~:text=The%20Blue%20Moon%20will%20rise,slightly%20larger%20and%20brighter%20than 
The Surprising Ingenuity Behind “Goodnight Moon”
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 

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