Ada Limon Wants Picnic Tables to Make You Feel Something

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Ada Limon, America’s first Latina poet laureate, was tasked with bringing poetry to people who otherwise might not be exposed to it, she knew just where to put it: National Parks. The celebrated poet talks to Outside about her inspirations for the You Are Here project, and how nature and poetry can help us rethink wild places, and our place in them. You can find a list of National Parks for the You Are Here project at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/literature/poetryinparks.htm The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside Plus members. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus.

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1:05.0	All right.
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1:08.0	Awesome.
1:09.0	Great.
1:10.0	Well, how are you doing?
1:11.0	I am doing pretty well? How about you?
1:15.0	I'm good. I'm like feeling a little nervous. I'm so excited to talk to you.
1:21.0	As a senior editor at Outside, Abby Baronian interviews a lot of people who share her passion for public lands and sustainable resource management. It's kind of a job. But when the opportunity to talk to poet
1:35.0	laureate Aetelimmon about her projects bringing poetry into our national parks
1:39.1	came up, that was an interview that didn't feel like work at all.
1:43.0	I don't often get to interview or like work at all in the poetry space.
1:48.0	I've worked for outdoor magazines for my entire career.
1:52.0	Oh wow. Poetry is like my entire career. Oh wow.
1:53.0	Poetry is like my true passion and I was so pleased when this story came across the pitch meeting
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