Ada Limón — “To Be Made Whole”

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation,
0:04.6	funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder.
0:10.1	Discover the latest findings on neuroscience, cosmology, and the origins of life at Templeton.org.
0:17.4	I really believe that poetry is something we humans need almost as much as we need water and air.
0:25.0	We can forget this, and then there are times in a life and in the life of the world where only a poem,
0:33.2	perhaps in the form of the lyrics of a song or a half sentence we ourselves write down,
0:39.2	can touch the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of others.
0:44.3	So my interest when I get into conversation with a poet is not to talk about poetry,
0:50.0	but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being fully human.
0:59.5	This adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory and
1:07.2	wondrous. I've been reading Adela Mone for years and was so happy when she was named the 24th
1:14.6	poet laureate of the United States. And it was an incredible treat to interview her before 1000
1:21.6	people packed together in a concert hall on a cold Minnesota night. Her presence on that stage was
1:29.4	electric. I think we all came a little bit more alive. And I'm not sure I've had a conversation
1:36.0	across all these years that was a more unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter, laughter of
1:44.7	delight and of blessed relief. I'm Christa Tippett and this is on being.
1:59.2	I spoke with Adela Mone at the Tedman concert hall in Minneapolis. We were brought together in a
2:04.8	collaboration between Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Milkweed editions.
2:19.6	Look at all these people. Oh my. I want to say first of all how happy I am to be doing something
2:30.5	with Milkweed. Which I have known since I moved to Minnesota for I don't know over a quarter
2:36.2	century ago to be this magnificent but quiet local publisher. And now we have watched it in these
2:44.0	25 years go from strength to strength to strength. And now I'll just say it again they are the
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