An Evening With Ada Limón: U.S. Poet Laureate

An Evening With Ada Limón: U.S. Poet Laureate

  • Ages 21+

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By Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival

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Swedish American Hall

2174 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114

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A Litquake Festival 2025 Headliner Event...

Join us for an evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón as she reads and discusses Startlement, an essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. With no shortage of awards and accolades to her name (MacArthur Genius and Time Woman of the Year, anyone?), Limón looks back on her distinguished career and shares radiant new work for the first time. $20 adv / $25 door

Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

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