{"id":6095,"date":"2023-12-06T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=6095"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:58:13","slug":"us-poet-laureate-ada-limon-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-december-2023\/us-poet-laureate-ada-limon-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"US Poet Laureate: Ada Lim\u00f3n Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Chlo\u00eb Moore &#8217;24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized wp-image-6119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/12\/Ada-Limon-Reading.jpeg\" alt=\"Ada Lim\u00f3n at the University of Minnesota\" class=\"wp-image-6119\" style=\"width:241px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/12\/Ada-Limon-Reading.jpeg 769w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/12\/Ada-Limon-Reading-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ada Lim\u00f3n at the University of Minnesota<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On November 8th, US Poet Laureate Ada Lim\u00f3n visited the University of Minnesota to offer a reading from her latest collection from Milkweed Editions, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hurting Kind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In a bright turquoise outfit and with a stage presence that demands your attention, Lim\u00f3n read a range of poems, including &#8220;Sanctuary,&#8221; &#8220;Joint Custody,&#8221; &#8220;Open Water,&#8221; and &#8220;The End of Poetry&#8221; (one of my personal favorites). She also spoke about how, &#8220;the relationship between the page, the poet, and the world is reciprocal,&#8221; offered thoughts about writing joyfully about difficult things, and the intertwining of missing and loving something or someone. Lim\u00f3n offered levity, too, talking about some humorous experiences as the US Poet Laureate, and attributing some minor microphone malfunctions to ghosts. As Poet Laureate, much of what she does involves working with children, but Lim\u00f3n was also clear about her belief that adults, too, need poems. Given her role, Lim\u00f3n said one of the most common questions people ask poets is, &#8220;How do we have hope?&#8221; Her response: &#8220;Have you<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> read<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> poems? How would we know?!&#8221; But even among the ghosts, the hauntings, and the often apocalyptic nature of the world, it&#8217;s hard <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to be hopeful when people like Ada Lim\u00f3n are making such wonderful poems, and especially when they share those poems with our little Midwestern corner of the world.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chlo\u00eb Moore &#8217;24 On November 8th, US Poet Laureate Ada Lim\u00f3n visited the University of Minnesota to offer a reading from her latest collection from Milkweed Editions, The Hurting Kind. In a bright turquoise outfit and with a stage presence that demands your attention, Lim\u00f3n read a range of poems, including &#8220;Sanctuary,&#8221; &#8220;Joint Custody,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":6037,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6095\/revisions\/8549"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}