Her signature project as poet laureate, "You Are Here," focuses on how poetry can help connect people to the natural world. Limón, named a 2024 Time magazine woman of the year, is the author of ...

“I think that part of writing poetry is to not just look for those metaphors, but to allow yourself to receive the metaphor from nature,” Limón said in an interview with Smokies Life.

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.

(APPLAUSE) JEFFREY BROWN: One part of You# Are Here is poetry in the parks,## bringing classic nature poems by past# writers into the natural world itself. ADA LIMON: One, two, three, poetry.

“I think that part of writing poetry is to not just look for those metaphors, but to allow yourself to receive the metaphor from nature,” Limón said in an interview with Smokies Life.

“I hope the poems bring about an awareness of the beauty in nature and relationships with other people,” said Swanson, 79. For Swanson, the keyword is awareness.

In marked contrast, the next poem, ‘Now the Amaltaas Glow’, celebrates the regeneration of nature, embodied by the flowering laburnum tree (amaltaas) in Covid times.

Poems can invite us to appreciate the beauty around us, while motivating us to take action to protect it. Blossomise, a collection by the UK’s poet laureate Simon Armitage, celebrates the ...

She was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate, and many folks may remember that she rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration ...

It's also the voice from which poetry is written, it's the voice below the horizon of our understanding inside us.” Whyte tells us that poetry, “is the art of creating language that's just as movable ...

A wheelchair-accessible picnic table inscribed with Lucille Clifton’s poem will be placed at Purchase Knob, bringing nature and poetry together.