There's a new year-long project by the nation's poet laureate bringing poetry in the natural world into focus and what's at stake due to climate change.

Jeffrey Brown reports for our new series Art in Action,

exploring the intersection of art and democracy.

It's part of our canvas coverage.

It was a walk in the park with poetry, National Park Service Ranger Alusha Scott leading, then reading the work of poet Mary Oliver.

Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars.

Oliver who died in 2019 was known for her love of nature,

and this was one of her favorite walks.

Around Blackwater Pond on the Keepcod National Seashore in Massachusetts.

Taking that walk this day, one of today's leading poets, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Lamone, launching a project she calls, you are here.

I kept thinking that poetry and nature are the two things that work so beautifully together

to bring us a sense of awe and wonder.

And I feel like poetry is a way that opens us up to a deeper experience with nature.

And so the two of them working together is really beautiful.

Please join me in welcoming our 24th United States Poet Laureate Ada Lamone.

One part of you are here is Poetry in the Parks, bringing classic nature poems by past writers into the natural world itself.

One two three poetry.

Mamone chose to kick off the campaign here in Cape Cod

with Mary Oliver's poem Can You Imagine,

printed atop a picnic table.

A place for all who come here to read, contemplate, perhaps to write something of their own.

I really wanted to offer a moment of reflection and deeper intention in the parks.

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