You Are Here: Poetry in Parks at Redwood Creek Overlook

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:

Redwood Creek Overlook

Significance:

Art installation by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

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Picnic Table

This picnic table at Redwood Creek Overlook 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!

• "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 Redwood National and State Parks as part of her signature project "You Are Here: Poetry in Parks."

  Credit / Author:

  Library of Congress

  Audio Transcript

  Never Alone

  by Francisco X. Alarcón

  always
  this caressing
  Wind
  
  this Earth
  whispering
  to our feet
  
  this boundless
  desire
  of being
  
  grass
  tree
  corazón