Forum from the Archives: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on Elevating and Promoting Poetry When America Needs Healing

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🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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California native Ada Limón is the new poet laureate of the United States. She plans on, “elevating and promoting the expansiveness of poetry.” Limón, who has published six volumes of poetry, grew up in Sonoma and now lives in Kentucky. She says that poetry lived and breathed in her community growing up and has been key to her solitude as well as her sense of connection. She steps into her new role when America needs healing and unifying from art and artists. Limón joins us to talk about her work, her love of poetry, and how she’s reimagining America’s relationship to poetry. This segment originally aired Aug. 26. Related link(s): The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual A New National Anthem National Poetry Month 2022: Ada Limón Reads “A Good Story” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.2	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and today we're bringing you one of my
1:04.5	favorite, favorite, favorite shows we've ever done with the incredible Ada Limone
1:09.0	Poet Laureate of the United States. When you becomeone Poet Laureate of the United States.
1:11.2	When you become the Poet Laureate of the United States, you're basically the ambassador to the
1:15.3	world of beautiful words, and there might be no better person for the gig than Adelaimone.
1:20.5	Her poems use clear, everyday language, but packs so much literary heft.
1:24.9	She also happens to be a Sonoma County native, and though she lives
1:27.5	among the hills and horses of Kentucky now, we're proud to claim her as a Bay Area native. So,
1:33.6	we'll listen back to this show from August shortly after she was named Poet Laureate. Stay tuned
1:37.7	for a special hour of forum from the archives after this break.
1:51.7	Welcome to Forum.
1:52.9	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:56.4	Italy Mon has written a half dozen books of poetry.
2:02.8	Her most recent is The Hurting Kind and the Carrying won the National Book Critic Circle Award for poetry.
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