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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón, 'What Poetry Can Do'

Arts and Culture: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón will give the English department's annual Baine Lecture for Scholars and Writers: 'What Poetry Can Do'

Tue
7
Feb
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Feb. 7, 2023
Fulton Chapel, Oxford Campus
Open to the public

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón will give the English department's annual Baine Lecture for Scholars and Writers: "What Poetry Can Do." Her talk will be followed by a reading of her poetry. She will sign books before and after her talk, starting at 4:30 pm. Please mask.

 

Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón was also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States.

For assistance related to a disability, contact Myra Gilmore: engl@olemiss.edu | 662-915-7439

Event posted by: cwiggint@olemiss.edu

Sponsored by: Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture