You Are Here

Praise for You Are Here Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection. Even in the specificity of each poets own inimitable experience, you will find your own voice and your own perceiving self, for the natural world includes us and enfolds us all.Margaret Renkl, New York Times "Ada is one of those people who can recognize all the ways we inflict pain on one another, not to mention our planet, without getting consumed by it. She writes in that space between grief and joy, and I love that space."Rachel Martin, NPR A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike. Los Angeles Times Lush with lyricism and striking imagery, these poems by Jericho Brown, Diane Seuss, and others contemplate seascapes, backyards, national borders, and built environments where life sings beneath the surface.Poets & Writers Contemporary American poets were asked to reflect on their relationship to the natural world in this evocative anthology of poems edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limn . . . The poems range from meditating on planting flowers in a garden to flora and fauna in parks and the wild, and express how each poet has their uniquefrequently surprisingrelationship to nature.Seattle Times, 6 books to check out this spring "Ada Limn needs no introduction whether its to outer space, or with her feet on the ground because of how she has impacted an entire new generation of minds with the weight of her words. [...] Limn sees poems as a vessel and a remedy for all kinds of hurt, even for the hurt we cause. And now we need poems and their remedies more than ever to bring us back to earth and back to ourselves."Electric Literature This beautifully curated anthology of 50 previously unpublished poems challenges preconceptions about nature poetry as it meditates on humanitys relationship to the planet . . . This collection stands apart for the strength of its entries and the breadth of its superb meditations on a pressing theme.Publishers Weekly "Ada Limn commissioned some of the finest poets of our era to write to perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, in an anthology that is uniformly intimate, if diverse in subject matter.... This collection will speak to those who love contemporary poetry and those who dont yet realize they do, as well as all who care about our natural world, and our place within it.... This collection is superbly designed for multiple audiences: nature lovers, poetry mavens, casual readers, or even as a generative teaching tool."Mandana Chaffa, The Brooklyn Rail Nature is the unifying theme of this poetry anthology edited by current U.S. poet laureate Ada Limn, who was born and raised in Sonoma County. Each featured poet, including Joy Harjo, Paul Tran, Rigoberto Gonzlez and more, is invited to tangle with their local landscape to produce previously unpublished work.San Francisco Chronicle, 22 new works to energize your spring reading Whatever you think nature poetry is, you might be surprised by this collection. Each poet writes about their local landscape in new and sometimes unexpected ways, showcasing a diversity of methods with which to interact with the natural world. Its a slim but powerful volume of poetry that demands you slow down, stop, and immerse yourself in the natural world, if even just for a few minutes.BookRiot, 8 New Science Books to Look For in Early 2024 "Its clear through her workincluding The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Awardthat Ada is connected to something higher, bigger, more ethereal in all that she notices, discovers, and shares. Yet it is exactly those same attributes that plant her so firmly in this physical plane, here on Earth. Its no surprise, then, that this kind of groundedness is at the heart

Ada Limn 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 NASAs Europa Clipper. Limn 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.

Foreword by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress Introduction by Ada Limn Carrie Fountain, You Belong to the World Donika Kelly, When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside Joy Harjo, Eat Kevin Young, Snapdragons Eduardo C. Corral, To a Blossoming Saguaro Diane Seuss, Nature Which Cannot Be Driven To Victoria Chang, A Woman and a Bird Gabrielle Calvocoressi, An Inn for the Coven Khadijah Queen, Tower Jos Olivarez, You Must Be Present Dorianne Laux, Redwoods b ferguson, Parkside & Ocean Brandy Nlani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, and Nou Revilla, Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina? Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving Ilya Kaminski, Letters Carl Phillips, We Love in the Only Ways We Can Brenda Hillman, Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century Laura Da, Bad Wolf Molly McCully Brown, Rabbitbrush Ellen Bass, Lighthouse Traci Brimhall, Mouth of the Canyon Jericho Brown, Aerial View Michael Kleber-Diggs, Canine Superpowers Monica Youn, Four Freedoms Hanif Abdurraqib, There Are More Ways to Show Devotion Cedar Sigo, Close Knit Flower Sack Carolyn Forch, Nightshift in the Home for Convalescents Analicia Sotelo, Quemado, TX Cecily Parks, Hackberry Danez Smith, Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery Paul Guest, Walking the Land Paisley Rekdal, Taking the Magnolia Matthew Zapruder, It Was Summer, The Wind Blew Prageeta Sharma, I am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace Roger Reeves, Beneath the Perseids Kazim Ali, The Man in 119 torrin a. greathouse, No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism Rigoberto Gonzlez, Summer Songs Adam Clay, Darkling, I Listen Camille Dungy, Remembering a Honeymoon Hike Erika Meitner, Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform Jake Skeets, In Fire Paul Tran, Terroir Jason Schneiderman, Staircase Kiki Petrosino, To Think of Italy While Climbing Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Heliophilia Jennifer L. Knox, Central Iowa, Scenic Overlook Alberto Rios, Twenty Minutes in the Backyard Patricia Smith, To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower Ruth Awad, Reasons to Live Notes Acknowledgments