USC Belser Book Club: "You Are Here" Edited & Introduced by Ada Limón

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm UTC-05:00

W. Gordon Belser Arboretum | Columbia

W. Gordon Belser Arboretum
Publisher/HostW. Gordon Belser Arboretum
USC Belser Book Club: "You Are Here" Edited & Introduced by Ada Lim\u00f3n
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Discussing "You Are Here," a collection of 50 poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world. Edited & Introduced by Ada Limón
About this Event

Welcome all nature lovers to the Belser Arboretum Book Club! Please join us, and share this announcement with your fellow readers.

Meet Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 3 p.m. in the Arboretum's Outdoor Classroom.The Bloomwood gate opens at 2:30 p.m., so please enjoy a walk before we begin.

PLEASE REGISTER in case we must change venue due to weather.

Discussion led by Nicola Waldron

More on the book here

About Poetry in the Parks here

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection

A 2024 NPR “Books We Love” Selection

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what “nature” and “poetry” are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

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We'll have snacks and beverages, and you're welcome to bring your own.

Note that trails are natural and hilly, and restrooms are not available.

Please leave pets at home.

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W. Gordon Belser Arboretum, 4080 Bloomwood Road, Columbia, United States

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