ABOUT THE SERIES
Its been ten years since we established Parks & Points. In the past decade, we’ve visited hundreds of distinct public lands and met as many writers, here. In the many submissions we receive for this poetry series, we rediscover our public lands as places of transformation and reawakening. They preserve culture, history, beauty, and many life forms. They connect us to place and time more deeply, and help us mark the passing of time. We are grateful that it is so hard to curate this series—to choose just a few poems from the thousand that we receive. it means our parks are cherished. Many thanks to all who shared their evocative writing with us. We hope you will take a wander through the places and meditations captured below, in our eighth Parks & Points & Poetry series!
As always, we've included poems that reflect both iconic sites within major national parks as well as the smallest most fleeting moments in nature. You can check out our first anthology from this series, Wayfinding, here.
For our 2026 series, we are delighted to feature poems by:
Redwoods National Park, photo by Derek Wright.
Felice Alexandra
KB Ballentine
Janet Banks
Karen G. Berry
Liona T. Burnham
Jeff Burt
Lisa WENCE Connors
Seth Copeland
Katherine Edgren
AmlanJYOTI Goswami
Emily Hockaday
Michelle Holland
Susan Marsh
Elaine Mintzer
Naila Moreira
Annie KLIER Newcomer
Christina M. Rau
John Savoie
Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Connie Soper
Elizabeth Spragins
Mary Ellen Talley
Kerry Trautman
Bob VarettonI
Please note the arrangement of the poems on this page may appear differently when viewed on a cellphone, or depending on the size of your screen. If viewing on your mobile phone, you may also wish to rotate your phone to landscape mode to see the works formatted as the poets have intended.
