Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
An electric conversation with Ada Limón's wisdom and her poetry — a refreshing, full-body experience of how this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being human at all times, but especially now. With an unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter — laughter of delight, and of blessed relief — this conversation holds not only what we have traversed these last years, but how we live forward.
It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration between Northrop at the @universityofminnesota and Ada's publisher, Milkweed Editions.
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Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, most recently, “The Hurting Kind”. Her volume “The Carrying” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume “Bright Dead Things” was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at @QueensUniv in North Carolina.
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An electric conversation with Ada Limón's wisdom and her poetry — a refreshing, full-body experience of how this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being human at all times, but especially now. With an unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter — laughter of delight, and of blessed relief — this conversation holds not only what we have traversed these last years, but how we live forward.
It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration between Northrop at the @universityofminnesota and Ada's publisher, Milkweed Editions.
ABOUT
Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, most recently, “The Hurting Kind”. Her volume “The Carrying” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume “Bright Dead Things” was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a former host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and she teaches in the MFA program at @QueensUniv in North Carolina.
STAY IN TOUCH
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
TikTok: tiktok.com/@onbeing
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
The Pause newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
Poetry Unbound: https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unb...
#onbeing #kristatippett #poetry #poem #poets #poetlaureate #quiet #silence #human #podcast
