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Poetry in Parks with Poet Laureate Ada Limón
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.066436, -70.194549
Beech Forest trailhead, Race Point Road, Provincetown, MA
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Limón will unveil a picnic table with an overlay featuring Mary Oliver’s poem “Can You Imagine?” at the trailhead of the Beech Forest Trail. Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who lived in the Provincetown area for more than 50 years. Oliver was known for her nature poetry and Beech Forest was a special respite for her.
Seven national parks, including Cape Cod National Seashore, were selected by Limón to be part of her signature project “You are Here: Poetry in Parks.” The initiative is a partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the Poetry Society of America that features site-specific poetry installations in the parks. Each one will transform a picnic table into a work of public art by featuring a historic American poem that relates to the park in a meaningful way.
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