Our experience of—and existence in—nature is universal, if rarely identical. As part of her historic tenure as the 24th US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón commissioned some of the finest poets of our era to write to perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, in an anthology that is uniformly intimate, if diverse in subject matter. The collection also serves as a starting point for a National Parks project that comingles these literary offerings with poetic “exhibits” in seven national parks.
Jackson, Miss. — This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Mississippi Book Festival. The festival has spent a decade contributing to Mississippi’s literary legacy, transforming the capitol into a