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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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

“A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.”
–Los Angeles 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.

For many years, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and 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You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran,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.

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 poet’s 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

“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 Limón . . . 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 unique—frequently surprising—relationship to nature.”—Seattle Times, “6 books to check out this spring”

“This beautifully curated anthology of 50 previously unpublished poems challenges preconceptions about ‘nature poetry’ as it meditates on humanity’s 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 Limón 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 don’t 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 Limón, who was born and raised in Sonoma County. Each featured poet, including Joy Harjo, Paul Tran, Rigoberto González 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. It’s 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”

“The expansive You Are Here surveys both the landscape of the natural world and the landscape of contemporary poetry. Pastoral witness neighbors environmental concern; established talents neighbor emerging voices; lakes and forests neighbor pools and cemeteries. Dear gardeners, bookworms, lumberjacks, cartographers, bird-watchers, scholars, students, poets, and general readers: You Are Here will leave you more attuned to the textures of countryside and country. Language and land become a capacious singularity in Ada Limón’s superb compilation.”—Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

“The poets in this collection share the richness of their breathing. Rich with noticing, rich with longing, rich with grace, their breath—preserved in poems—become our breathing. The gift here is the true scale of our breath, an interspecies, planetary scale. The scale of gratitude. I am so glad you are here.”—Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

ISBN: 9781571315687

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128 pages