Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. poet laureate, will be the featured guest at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday, April 15. The event will take place from 7-9 p.m. in the UWM Student Union, Wisconsin Room.
Limón, a celebrated poet, has published six books of poetry. Her book The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award, while Bright Dead Things received nominations for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her latest work, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. Limón is also the author of two children’s books: In Praise of Mystery, illustrated by Peter Sís, and And, Too, The Fox, which will be released in 2025.
In October 2023, Limón was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She was named one of Time magazine’s “Women of the Year” in 2024. Additionally, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote a poem that was engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, launched in October 2024 to explore one of Jupiter’s moons.
As U.S. poet laureate, Limón’s signature project, You Are Here, aims to highlight how poetry can foster a deeper connection to the natural world. Her term as poet laureate will conclude this spring.
Tickets for the event are required. Admission is free for UWM students and $10 for the general public.
The lecture is sponsored by UWM Student Involvement, Women’s Resource Center, Women’s and Gender Studies, English Department, Honors College, and ColorLit, and is presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 21st Century Studies, and the Roberto Hernández Center.
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