Last updated: April 4, 2025
Place
You Are Here: Poetry in Parks at Ledges Trailhead
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Quick Facts
Location:
Ledges Trailhead: 405 Truxell Road, Peninsula, Ohio 44264. Walk to the picnic table in the playfield next to the shelter.
Significance:
Art installation by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
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Picnic Table
This picnic table at the Ledges Trailhead is an art installation by the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Limón selected Jean Valentine's poem "The valley" for this poetry installation as part of her signature project "You Are Here: Poetry in Parks." The project includes additional installations at six other national parks.
The valley
The valley
edge by edge
bare field by field
I walked through it through you
rain by rain
cold by cold
root absence
and the purposeful cold
Eye opened
slow
but what is slow
Jean Valentine, “The Valley” from Break the Glass. Copyright © 2010 by Jean Valentine.
What Would You Write in Response to the Landscape Around You?
You Are Here, the signature project of the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, invites you to explore the relationship between language and the natural world through the words of poets and your own imagination.
Use #YouAreHerePoetry to share your thoughts!
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"The valley" by Jean Valentine
The 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, reads the poem "The valley" by Jean Valentine. Limón selected the poem for a poetry installation at Cuyahoga Valley National Park as part of her signature project "You Are Here: Poetry in Parks."
- Credit / Author:
- Library of Congress
- Date created:
- 06/21/2024