Mayor’s Book Club: “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World”

Join us for a Mayor’s Book Club reading and conversation with Carrie Fountain and Cecily Parks, Austin poets featured in “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World” “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World,” edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, features 50 new poems by some of the country’s most accomplished poets that reflect upon our essential connection with the natural world. “features 50 previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape 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. The anthology includes Austin poets Carrie Fountain, Cecily Park and Roger Reeves. A book signing will follow the event with books available for purchase on site. Carrie Fountain’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and The New Yorker, among many others. Her first collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner. Her second collection, Instant Winne r, was published by Penguin Random House in 2014. Fountain’s debut novel for young adults, I’m Not Missing , was published in 2018 by Flatiron Books (Macmillan), and her first children’s book, The Poem Forest , about the life and legacy of poet and ecologist W.S. Merwin , was published in 2023 by Candlewick Press. Her newest poetry collection, The Life, was published in May 2021 by Penguin. Fountain lives with her family in Austin. In 2019, she was named Poet Laureate of the state of Texas. Cecily Parks is the editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses, and the author of three poetry collections, including most recently The Seeds , which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in the New Yorker, A Public Space, the New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2022, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin.