Hey, Ada! Thanks so much for speaking with me.

Interview Correspondent Lois Carlisle was exclamation-point happy to pick Ada’s brain, and you’ll see why below. She also works as a freelance writer splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. The author of four collections of poetry, most recently her Milkweed Editions collection Bright Dead Things (named a National Book Award Finalist and Top-Ten Book of the Year by The New York Times), superstar Ada Limón hardly needs an introduction. The position is appointed annually.Back to Issue Fourteen. In 1985, an act of Congress officially establish the role that is now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. The Library of Congress has had a poet consultant since 1937.

And that without one, we don't have the other.' And I think moving through that grief and trauma, anger, rage - through poetry I think we can actually remember that on the other side of that is also contentment, joy, a little peace now and again, and that those are all a part of the same spectrum. 'I think we need to remember that we possess the full spectrum of human emotions. 'I think that it's really important to remember that even in this particularly hard moment, divided moment, poetry can really help us reclaim our humanity,' Limón told All Things Considered. An incredible honor and the shock of a lifetime.'Īnd Limón reflected on being chosen for the position at this particular time in U.S. 'And so I took a deep breath, and I said 'yes,' and we all sort of laughed together. 'To me, it felt like 'how am I even allowed to stand in that lineage,'' she said. She said thoughts of previous poets to hold the post ran through her mind. Limón described receiving the news of her appointment to All Things Considered. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.' Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. In a press release, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said, 'Ada Limón is a poet who connects.

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