KLCC

Poet Ada Limón on being present and breathing with trees

Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’ll be in Eugene on Wednesday, April 8 for a talk at the ...
The Tico Times

Costa Rica Celebrates African Culture in Limón’s Grand Parade

The vibrant beats of African drums and lively calypso music will fill the streets of Limón on Thursday, August 31st, as the city’s beloved Grand Gala Parade returns for the first time since 2019. The ...
KPBS

Ada Limón reflects on her tenure as the poet laureate and bringing us back to wonder

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...
The Daily Illini

Poet Laureate Ada Limón shares honored work at Spurlock Museum

Ada Limón, 24th poet laureate of the United States, visited the University of Illinois on Thursday to read some of her work at the Spurlock Museum. Limón was appointed the title of poet laureate in ...
NPR

'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya ...
The Nation

Ada Limón: “The Country Has Taught Me That Poetry Lives Everywhere.”

The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology. Ada Limón is currently serving a second term as the United States’ 24th poet laureate. She is the author of six poetry ...
WUWM

Poet Laureate Ada Limon talks about her poem engraved on a NASA spaceship

When NASA's Europa Clipper blasts off later this month, it'll be headed for Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Europa. That is a voyage of 1.8 billion miles towards an icy moon, searching for conditions ...
Outside

The Newest National Parks Feature? Poetry.

If Ada Limón were left to her own devices for the day, she would rise, hug her husband and her dog, write a poem, and read a poem. Then she’d spend the rest of her waking hours learning the names of ...