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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón, 'What Poetry Can Do', 2/7
On 2/7, US Poet Laureate Ada Limón will give the English department's annual Baine Lecture for Scholars and Writers: 'What Poetry Can Do'
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón will give the English department's annual Baine Lecture for Scholars and Writers: 'What Poetry Can Do.' Her talk will be on Tuesday, February 7 at 5:30 pm at the Fulton Chapel. She will sign books before and after her talk, beginning at 4:30 pm. The event is open to the public. Please mask.
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón was also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States.