As part of the Humanities Program's 2021 poetry series, please join us and the New Writing Series in welcoming poet Ada Limón, author of The Carrying and Bright Dead Things. A poetry reading from her collections will be followed by a moderated Q&A session. To register, please visit tinyurl.com/alimon21.

Copies of her work may be purchased through the UC San Diego Bookstore; free shipping on anything on the Pure Poetry store from April 14 - May 31 with code POETRY21.

Ada Limón
Limón's first collection of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is also the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018); Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010); and This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2006), winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize. Of Limón's work, the poet Richard Blanco writes, "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix."

A 2001-2002 fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and a Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She splits her time between Lexington, Kentucky, and Sonoma, California.

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