Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States

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Please join us for an enchanted evening of poetry reading and conversation with Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Ada Limón is the author of six poetry collections: The Hurting Kind (2022); The Carrying (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; Bright Dead Things (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Sharks in the Rivers (2010); Lucky Wreck (2005, reissued 2021); This Big Fake World (2005).

She grew up in Sonoma, California and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky where she writes, teaches, and hosts the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown.

There will be a book signing event following the reading.

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