James Ph. Kotsybar

James Ph. Kotsybar, in print in six countries, is the first poet (honored by NASA to be) published to another planet. His verse orbits Mars (at the request of NASA’s MAVEN team and worldwide internet voting), became part of Hubble Space Telescope’s Mission Log, on its 20th Anniversary, and was awarded and featured at NASA’s Centaur’s 50th Anniversary Art Challenge.

Other honors include State Poetry Society of Michigan and Balticon Competitions. Invited in 2018 to read for Troubadours, (Europe’s oldest literary institution) in their founding city of Toulouse, France, at EuroScience Open Forum,  Europe's largest interdisciplinary science event, he earned a standing return invitation.

He has performed his poetry to L.A. dance clubs (Lhasa), onstage at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center and Santa Barbara's Granada Theater, and sung the poetry of William Blake with Allen Ginsberg at the Old Victoria Theater in Santa Barbara.  

He is a retired senior judge of the American Orchid Society, founder of the Coastal Valley Orchid Society and founder and co-owner of Chaotic Exotics orchid nursery.

“FLORAL ATTRACTION” featured in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol. 2