![]() ![]() Limón grew up in Sonoma, California, and studied drama at the University of Washington until a teacher urged her to apply to grad school for poetry. She previously received a 2020 Guggenheim fellowship, and her collections have garnered numerous accolades: The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, and her sixth book, The Hurting Kind, was widely praised when it came out earlier this year. “Again and again, I have been witness to poetry’s immense power to reconnect us to the world, to allow us to heal, to love, to grieve, to remind us of the full spectrum of human emotion,” Limón said in response to her appointment by the Library of Congress-the highest honor in her field. And no one is better positioned to provide it than new Poet Laureate of the United States Ada Limón (GSAS ’01). These disquieting times call for a little poetry. ![]()
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