A Reading by Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States / Henry King Stanford Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities
Thursday, February 20, 2025 7pm
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1300 Memorial Dr, Coral Gables, Florida 33146
https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/stanford-distinguished-professors/index.htmlThe Center for the Humanities, along with colleagues from the University of Miami, would like to invite you to a public reading by Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two children’s books: In Praise of Mystery, with illustrations by Peter Sís; and And, Too, The Fox, released in 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and she was named a TIME magazine woman of the year in 2024. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that was engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft that was launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025.
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