"Ada Limón Named the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate"
"The country's next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public art form. 'I grew up with poetry being in the community,' says Limón, a native of Sonoma, California. 'It wasn't supposed to just be something read on page; it was supposed be read out loud. I remember going to poetry readings at the bookstore where I worked when I was 16. It's the oral tradition.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Renee Gladman's Plans for Sentences
"The pathos in these lines might bring up different associations for different readers. For me, there's pathos somehow 'leaking' from these sentences, calling to mind the ways we build or fail to build communities, shelters, and habitable spaces. Taken together, the text and images here dream and draft and gesture toward future creations, lines of many kinds that will create, inhabit, and alter future spaces." |
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