Write Stuff presents Poet Ada Limon - from "Poem & The Poet"

Leap Day falls on the fifth Thursday of the month, which means Scratched Up Radio Theater and Write Stuff present something unique. This time it's a special from Pacifica's "The Poet And The Poem", from the Library Of Congress, featuring the 2022 Poet Laureate, Ada Limon. That's this Thursday February 29th, at 8:00 PM on KKRN 88.5 and at kkrn.org.

Ada Limon became the 24th poet Laureate of the United States in July of 2022. Limon is the author of the poetry collections The Hurting Kind (2022, Milkweed Editions); The Carrying (2018, Milkweed Editions), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; Bright Dead Things (2015, Milkweed Editions), a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Sharks in the Rivers (2010, Milkweed Editions); Lucky Wreck (2005, Autumn House Press, reissued 2021); and This Big Fake World (2005, Pearl Editions).