**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
**A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection

"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes-both literal and literary-are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape-be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop-offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

Vorwort

• Major publicity outreach led by preeminent publicist Michael Taeckens (Broadside PR), who secured national media for the poet’s past collections with confirmed coverage in New York Times Book Review, USA Today and Lion’s Roar already confirmed.

• Major publicity collaboration with the Library of Congress, including a social media #YouAreHere campaign to engage readers across digital platforms 

• Major touring in collaboration with the Library of Congress to National Parks across the country including: 

  • Cape Cod National Seashore (Massachusetts)

  • Cuyahoga Valley National Park (Ohio)

  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina and Tennessee)

  • Everglades National Park (Florida)

  • Mount Rainier National Park (Washington)

  • Redwood National and State Parks (California)

  • Saguaro National Park (Arizona)

• Major advertising campaigns with Bookshop.org, Edelweiss, Baker & Taylor, Meta, Goodreads, Google Sponsored Search, and all indie regionals

• Major booksellers campaign focused on Independent Bookstore Day promotional

• Major academic campaign to 100K educators, positioning the title as a competitive candidate for Common Read programs

• Ongoing ebook promotions with focus on National Poetry Month, Earth Month, Summer reading and Holiday reading promos

• Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales, and academic lists of more than 65K contacts

Autorentext

**Ada Limón **is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of The Hurting Kind, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of five other collections of poems, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the picture book In Praise of Mystery based on the poem engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper. Limón is a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a TIME Woman of the Year. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review. She lives in Glen Ellen, California.

Klappentext

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
**A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection

"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes-both literal and literary-are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape-be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop-offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

Zusammenfassung
Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes both literal and literary are changing.

Leseprobe
Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She currently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing the University of Iowa.

WHEN THE FACT OF YOUR GAZE MEANS NOTHING, THEN YOU ARE TRULY ALONGSIDE late spring wind sounds an ocean through new leaves. later the same wind sounds a tide. later still the dry sound of applause: leaves chapped falling, an ending. this is a process. the ocean leaping out of ocean should be enough. the wind pushing the water out of itself; the water catching the light should be enough. I think this on the deck of one boat
then another. I think this in the Salish, thought it in Stellwagen in the Pacific. the water leaping
looks animal, looks open mouthed, looks toothed and rolling; the ocean an animal full of other animals. what I am looking for doesn’t matter. that I am looking doesn’t matter.
I exert no meaning. a juvenile bald eagle eats a harbor seal’s placenta. its head still brown. …