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Welcome to the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail companion website! The UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail at the Edward Ball Nature Trails on the UWF main campus is made possible by a grant from the UWF Living Lab Program. The goal of the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail is to inspire participants to see deeply into themselves and their relationship with the natural world and to create and share their own poetry and art. Each of the signs in the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail contains a poem or work of art followed by a prompt for participants to respond with their own poetry and art. 

The UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail features work from national, regional, historical, and contemporary artists and poets including Mary Ann Carroll, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, John Markowitz, Mary Oliver, Milicent Patrick, Charlotte Pence, Alexis Rockman, Lyda Toy, and William Butler Yeats.

Participants in the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail (including UWF students and Edward Ball Nature Trail visitors) may submit their poetry and art in response to the prompts on the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail signs for consideration for publication on this companion website. The Submissions page contains submission guidelines and information. All work published on the site represents the speech and opinions of the individuals artists and writers and does not constitute the speech or opinions of the editors or University of West Florida.

Directions to the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail are available on the Visit page of the site. The UWF Living Lab Program looks forward to your participation in the UWF Poetry and Art Nature Trail.