An Evening With Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States and is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The book component of her signature project, You Are Here, which focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world, will be released this April with Milkweed Editions.
Ms. Limón's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Center for Writing and Public Discourse and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.