Ada Limόn Reading, Poet Laureate of the United States!

Poetry Promise, Inc., with Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel, announce a special Poetry Promise Reading Series event featuring Ada Limόn, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Ada Limόn will read her award-winning poetry on Sunday, June 2, 2024, 7:00 - 8:30 PM, at the West Charleston Library Lecture Hall, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89146. Admission is free and open to the public, and it is strongly recommended that you reserve seating in advance on Eventbrite. This program is produced by Poetry Promise, the Clark County Poet Laureate Program, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Nevada Humanities, and the Nevada Center for the Book, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Event Details:

An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limόn

• Date: Sunday, June 2, 2024
• Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
• Location: West Charleston Library, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89146
• Admission: Free and open to the public. Advance tickets are available via Eventbrite.

Ada Limόn, 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 the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that will be engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be 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. In October of 2023, she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.

This program is produced by Poetry Promise, the Clark County Poet Laureate Program, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Nevada Humanities, and the Nevada Center for the Book, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Poetry Promise Reading Series has hosted every U.S. Poet Laureate presenting their work for almost a decade. Previous programs have featured the following Poets Laureate of the United States: Joy Harjo (2020), Tracy K. Smith (2018), and Juan Felipe Herrera (2015), as well as beat legend Michael McClure (2016), Pulitzer Prize winners Sharon Olds (2016), and Jericho Brown (2019). Join us as we host an evening with one of the most celebrated contemporary poets of our time!