A poem can seem so small, so minor, so invisible, especially when up against the daily crises and catastrophes that our planet is facing,” writes Ada Limón, the former U.S. poet laureate, in the introduction to her edited anthology, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, 2024). “How can a poem make a difference? How can a tree make a difference?” Perhaps the answer, she writes, is that “poetry and nature have a way of simply reminding us that we are not alone.” {read}