Happy #EarthDay and also #NationalParkWeek along with #NationalPoetryMonth ! We're pausing our poetry series for one year, though please click through and enjoy the many incredible and stunning poems from the past series. parksandpoints.com/parks-points-p…

This week #ParkChat welcomes Live a Memory as our special guest host. He’ll be looking at “National Park Memories”. I’ve always inspired by his content and am expecting the same for his chat. Please join us Wednesday at 9 PM ET. Nature Tech Family 🏞️🚙📷

This week #ParkChat welcomes BabyBoomerSuperSaver as our special guest host. She’ll be looking at “Art in Nature”. I’m really looking forward to it and I hope you are too. Wednesday at 9 PM ET. Nature Tech Family 🏞️🚙📷

Our local National Scenic Trail (New England National Scenic Trail) is now a NPS Park! nps.gov/orgs/1207/thre… #nationaltrails #hiking

For anyone left on this increasingly deserted app... this annual #parkchat special event is why you haven't deleted the former birdsite from your phone. Make sure you join in!

National parks are great economic drivers! Even smaller parks, like our local NPS site, Weir Farm National Historical Park, contribute large sums of money to the #Connecticut economy ($3.6 million!) Having NPS sites near you is good business! #NPS #Tourism nps.gov/wefa/learn/new…

The Outer Banks of North Carolina are a fantastic vacation destination. Here are 4 coastal parks you must visit! #NationalParks #Travel #Summer

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This Wednesday #ParkChat welcomes Travel Stamps as our special guest host. I’m not exactly sure what the topic will be yet but you may want to have your Parks Passport handy. See you at 9 PM. Nature Tech Family 🏞️🚙📷

Happy #NationalTrailsDay everyone! Thanks to American Hiking for creating such a great day!

We are honored to be among 50 CT state grant recipients, all dedicated to expanding CT's Recreational Trails. Our funding supports a prose & #poetry program, w/ live events & publication. Stay tuned for a call for submissions!
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Our 2023 Parks & Points & Poetry live poetry reading is starting soon! (7:30pm EDT) Join us and register here:

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We just wrapped up our 7th annual poetry series at Parks & Points! Tomorrow evening we are hosting a reading, with 15 poets sharing work. Please join us on Zoom for armchair travel to many diverse parks and public lands! #parks #poetry parksandpoints.com/2023-virtual-p…

Excited to have my poem published in the poetry series of Parks and Points.

Dawn at Shenandoah by Allison Xu — Parks & Points parksandpoints.com/poetry-2023-/d… via @parksandpoints

Lost/Found was inspired by Big Finn Hill Park, which borders St. Edwards State Park in Kenmore, Washington. #nature #writing #poetry parksandpoints.com/poetry-2023-/l…. .

Pam Ahlen brings us to Vermont's Long Trail, a 272 mile span and the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States. #poetry #longtrail #naturelovers
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A pantoum is comprised of four-line stanzas (quatrains), where the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeat as the first and third lines of the next. See a beautiful example of this form in Emily Hockaday's 'Idlewild Park, Sunset.' Emily Hockaday IMPEACH SCOTUS
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Today's #FindYourPark Photo theme is #NPSGratitude ! Show us a time:
-where you were grateful for the actions of someone else in a park place
-where you were grateful to just BE or experience
#ParkChat #MyParkStory Ours=to BE North Cascades NPS visit (a #bucketlist trip)
Wander-Filled Life

'All my legs stretch forever into the sea
my mammal veins feel a tidepool, a fever...'
Amelia Gorman, inspired by California's Ma-l'el Dunes in Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge #poetry #inspiration #writing #mountlion Amelia Gorman
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'Howls cascade across the valley,

singing willows tall and silver,

aspen quaking along the river,

huckleberry thick on the hill.

The pups blink, lift their heads

and answer.'
Thanks Dana Sonnenschein. #poetry #parks #wolves #WritingCommunity
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