Call to Artists! NEA Big Read
Join LTA as we spend time with the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, and our esteemed group of community panelists: Adoria Maxberry, Dr. Barbara Walker, Ciara Harper and Jason Alexander Holmes!
Learning Through Art, Inc. is thrilled to announce our 2026 NEA Big Read, featuring You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón!
We’re inviting creators of all ages across the tristate area to share artistic responses (visual, musical, poetic, performance, or multimedia) inspired by the poems in You Are Here.
Submit your work by April 10, 2026 to support@lartinc.com
Prompt: What would you write/create in response to the landscape around you? (the physical landscape and/or your emotional landscape)
Selected pieces will be showcased during our Closing Celebration at the Cincinnati Parks Krohn Conservatory on June 11th, 2026 from 6-8pm. Works will also be featured across the Books Alive! For Kids® website & socials!
Pick up your FREE copy of “You Are Here” at the:
Join us in celebrating Our Nature and how our environment inspires hope, courage, and connection.
Explore the children’s books from our early reading literacy program, Books Alive! For Kids®, which we have connected to the NEA Big Read theme of: Our Nature!
Our friends are the best! See how The Well is also celebrating the poetry of Ada Limón through Mindful Poetry Moments sharing audio and video content when you sign up on their website! Check out their full list of gatherings and workshops featuring multiple poets included in, “You Are Here”!
"I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself." ~ Ada Limon
