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Ada Limón (born March 28, 1976) is an American poet. [1] On July 12, 2022, she was named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress. [2] [3] [4] This made her the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States. [5]
Limón deliberately avoided creating a collection with a "narrative arc". [1] [2] Instead, Limón organized the poems into sections corresponding to the four seasons. [2]Some of the poems in the collection were written during isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and were sent by Limón as "gifts" to people she could not see in person prior to publication in The Hurting Kind. [3]
Appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the poet laureate's office is administered by the Center for the Book. For children's poets, the Poetry Foundation awards the Young People's Poet Laureate. [1] The incumbent poet laureate (since 2022) is Ada Limón. [2]
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Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. [3] Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions.
[9] [10] [11] Smith's idea for the podcast was inspired by a reading series she was doing called "American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities". [12] She was travelling throughout the country for the reading series from 2017 to 2019. [13] The first two seasons of the podcast were hosted by Tracy K. Smith. [14]
Reception was broadly very positive, listing the book on a number of best seller and "best of 2020" lists. [11] Smithsonian magazine named it one of the top 10 best science books for 2020. [12] Wendy Becktold from Sierra magazine positively reviewed the book "All We Can Save is a powerful tool because it articulates and holds space for this ...
Ada Limón’s poems are out of this world, literally. This month, the U.S. Poet Laureate’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” which was engraved on NASA spacecraft Europa Clipper ...