Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón gave a public reading to a full house at Glenn Auditorium on the Emory University campus on Feb. 11, 2023, hosted by Emory Libraries. Known for her engaging style, Limón writes poems that often focus on the beauty of nature and how it centers and grounds the soul.
She is the author of six poetry collections, including her most recent, “The Hurting Kind” (2022), and “The Carrying” (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. The reading was sponsored by the Hightower Fund; Emory Libraries and the Rose Library; Emory’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Creative Writing Program; the Decatur Book Festival, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Her reading was part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series by the Rose Library at Emory University.
Read articles about her visit:
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to give a reading at Emory University
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/01/er_public_reading_limon_17-01-2023/story.html
Jumping Fences with Ada Limon
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/02/er_ada_limon_recap_15-02-2023
More from the Emory Libraries playlist, including other Danowski series guest poets: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B761DAA9CBF5AD9
Emory Libraries website: https://libraries.emory.edu/
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón gave a public reading to a full house at Glenn Auditorium on the Emory University campus on Feb. 11, 2023, hosted by Emory Libraries. Known for her engaging style, Limón writes poems that often focus on the beauty of nature and how it centers and grounds the soul.
She is the author of six poetry collections, including her most recent, “The Hurting Kind” (2022), and “The Carrying” (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. The reading was sponsored by the Hightower Fund; Emory Libraries and the Rose Library; Emory’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Creative Writing Program; the Decatur Book Festival, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Her reading was part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series by the Rose Library at Emory University.
Read articles about her visit:
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to give a reading at Emory University
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/01/er_public_reading_limon_17-01-2023/story.html
Jumping Fences with Ada Limon
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/02/er_ada_limon_recap_15-02-2023
More from the Emory Libraries playlist, including other Danowski series guest poets: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B761DAA9CBF5AD9
Emory Libraries website: https://libraries.emory.edu/
