Lonni Whitchurch
For Lonni Whitchurch, a former high school English teacher from Bemidji, Minnesota, who has lived in Florida for 34 years, the next full moon is a perfect time for a book launch and to talk about ways the moon has influenced poets and creativity. (
The Old Farmer's Almanac calls a full moon in April a Pink Moon. It's named after the phlox, a pink flower that blooms this month.)
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, the moon in its various cycles plays an important role in many of her poems. She describes how full tropical moons are "haze and startle at once" while in the Midwest, at Christmas, "tinsel swings in the curve of a crescent moon."