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You Are Here: Poetry in Parks at Crescent Beach

A portion of a picnic table top featuring a poem titled
A portion of the picnic tabletop panel featuring a poem selected by the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Quick Facts
Location:
Crescent Beach Picnic Area
Significance:
Art installation by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

Picnic Table

This picnic table at Crescent Beach Picnic Area is an art installation by the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Limón selected Francisco X. Alarcón's poem "Never Alone" for this poetry installation as part of her signature project "You Are Here: Poetry in Parks." The project includes additional installations at six other national parks.

Never Alone

by Francisco X. Alarcón
 

always
this caressing
Wind

this Earth
whispering
to our feet

this boundless
desire
of being

grass
tree
corazón

Francisco X. Alarcón, “Never Alone” from From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2020 by Francisco X. Alarcón. Reprinted with the permission of The University of Arizona Press.

What Would You Write in Response to the Landscape Around You?

You Are Here, the signature project of the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, invites you to explore the relationship between language and the natural world through the words of poets and your own imagination.

Use #YouAreHerePoetry to share your thoughts!

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  • "Never Alone" by Francisco X. Alarcón


    The 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, reads the poem "Never Alone" by Francisco X. Alarcón. Limón selected the poem for a poetry installation at Mount Rainier National Park as part of her signature project "You Are Here: Poetry in Parks."

    Credit / Author:
    Library of Congress
    Date created:
    06/12/2024
    Audio Transcript

Last updated: June 21, 2024