Parks & Points & Poetry

ABOUT THE SERIES

We are delighted to share our seventh annual poetry series! Every spring, we read so many beautifully written poems that evoke the natural landscapes and cultural histories and legacies associated with public lands; we are so grateful to the writers who submit their work in consideration for this 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. We hope you will join us frequently this month to celebrate.

And, you can check out our first anthology from this series, Wayfinding, here.

For our April 2023 series, we are delighted to feature poems by:

Pam Ahlen
Sandy Carlson
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
Eric Forsbergh
Amelia Gorman
Marjorie Gowdy
Sheryl Guterl
Emily Hockaday
Mark Jensen
Susan Marsh
Annie Newcomer
Andrew Payton
Alyson Plante
Sherry Mossafer Rind 
Laura Shovan
Dana Sonnenschein 
Dorothy Swoope
Mary Ellen Talley
Kerry Trautman 
Susan Weaver 
Martin Willetts
Allison Xu

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.