Mount Rainier National Park
Henry M Jackson Memorial Visitor Center Plaza (in Paradise)
Paradise Rd E.
Ashford, WA 98304
United States
On June 21 at 5 p.m., the public is invited to join Ada Limón for the National Parks Service “Poetry in Parks” unveiling. This event is open to the public.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will unveil a picnic table with an overlay featuring “Uppermost” by A. R. Ammons.
Seven national parks, including Mount Rainier National Park, were selected by Limón to be part of her signature project “You are Here: Poetry in Parks.” The initiative is a partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the Poetry Society of America that features site-specific poetry installations in the parks. Each one will transform a picnic table into a work of public art by featuring a historic American poem that relates to the park in a meaningful way.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems.
Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers.