Name: Ada Limón: "The Unleaving: How Poetry Helps You to Not Miss Your Life”
Start: 2026-04-08T16:00:00-07:00
Location: EMU (Erb Memorial Union) room 214

$Ada Lim\u00f3n: "The Unleaving: How Poetry Helps You to Not Miss Your Life\u201d$

At a time when social media and our societal structures demand our constant attention to the rigged algorithm, we’ve stopped paying attention to what really matters, the world around us. Using poetic examples and stories from real life, this talk is designed to allow us to remember that we are alive and to help us reconnect to what matters.
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.
This event will also be live-streamed.