The first image of the Martian landscape from the Curiosity rover. Curiosity flew 352 million miles to take it... which is, relatively speaking, not very far at all.
Sara Eliza Johnson’s first book, Bone Map (Milkweed Editions, 2014), wasselected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Boston Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship in poetry, a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and two Winter Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among other honors. She currently teaches at the University of Alaska—Fairbanks.