Redwood National and State Parks
Crescent Beach Picnic Area
(Exit Enderts Beach Rd. off HWY 101)
Crescent City, CA 95531
United States
This event is open to the public, please register here.
Please join us for the unveiling of the “You Are Here” poetry project with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and National Parks Service.
You are invited to a special event celebrating poetry and nature at Crescent Beach Picnic Area!
Ada Limón, the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate, will launch her new art installation project, created in partnership with the Library of Congress, the Poetry Society of America, and the National Park Service. “You Are Here” transforms American poems into works of public art which will be installed in parks across the country. This location features “Never Alone” by Francisco X. Alarcón. This initiative will help all park visitors form deeper connections to the natural world through poetry and the arts.
These installations will transform picnic tables into works of public art featuring an American poem with a meaningful connection to the park. This initiative will help all park visitors form deeper connection to the natural world through poetry and the arts.
• Book signing for Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s book You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.
Books will be available for purchase at the event. Books can be preordered and picked up at event. All sales are final. All proceeds support Redwood Parks Conservancy.
• Refreshments provided.
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.