The Library of Congress named Ada Limón the 24th poet laureate of the US. Limón, 46, has published six books, including, most recently The Hurting Kind (2022, Milkweed Editions) and The Carrying (2018, Milkweed Editions), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She succeeds Joy Harjo and takes up the position it the fall, beginning with a reading on September 29. Limón told the New York Times, “Right now, so often we are going numb to grief and numb to tragedy and numb to crisis. Poetry is a way back in, to recognizing that we are feeling […]
