Ada Limón

A long-time Brooklynite, ADA LIMÓN now lives in Kentucky’s horse country, where she finds it much easier to find quiet time to write.  Her poems invite the reader to share a sense of wonder with the wide range of experiences we encounter in a life, or in a single day.  Even when she writes of sorrow and loss, loneliness or illness, there is a trace of the praise poem in her work.  For Limón, being here to sing, even a sad song, is something to sing about.  Ada Limón’s first collection of poetry, Lucky Wreck (2006), was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is also the author of This Big Fake World (2006), winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize; and Sharks in the Rivers (2010). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Harvard Review, and Pleiades.

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Schedule

THURSDAY

2:00-3:15pm
Reading and Conversation
Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Idra Novey
Prudential Hall

3:30-4:30
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Eduardo C. Corral, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church

7:30-10:00pm
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
 

FRIDAY

9:30-10:30am
Poets on Poetry
Ada Limón
Chase Room

10:50-11:50am
Conversation: Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant
Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Larissa Szporluk
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church

12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Richard Blanco, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Natasha Trethewey
Prudential Hall
 

SATURDAY

10:30-11:40
Conversation: Tell All the Truth, But Tell it Slant
Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Idra Novey, Arthur Sze
North Star Academy Great Room

1:30-2:40pm
Conversation: Crossing Boundaries
Ada Limón, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church

3:00-4:30pm
Readings & Music
Ada Limón, Arthur Sze, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
 

SUNDAY

10:30-11:40am
Festival Poet Readings
Dan Bellm, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Paul Legault, Ada Limón
CAE Auditorium 

12:00-1:10pm
Conversation: American Poetries
Sharon Dolin, Kurtis Lamkin, Ada Limón, C. K. Williams
Newark Museum