U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reading at Emory University
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón gave a public reading to a full house at Glenn Auditorium on the Emory University campus on Feb. 11, 2023, hosted by Emory Libraries. Known for her engaging style, Limón writes poems that often focus on the beauty of nature and how it centers and grounds the soul.
She is the author of six poetry collections, including her most recent, “The Hurting Kind” (2022), and “The Carrying” (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. The reading was sponsored by the Hightower Fund; Emory Libraries and the Rose Library; Emory’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Creative Writing Program; the Decatur Book Festival, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Her reading was part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series by the Rose Library at Emory University.
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