5/26/2023 0 Comments Bright dead things poetThis is the third of five events in the 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series presented by the UNC Asheville English Department, with fiction writer Jamel Brinkley on Thursday, Apr. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is the previous host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Limón grew up in Sonoma, California and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where she writes and teaches. Particularly revealing is a series of elegies to Limóns stepmother, whom the poet helped take care of during a long battle with terminal illness. Her work has been supported most recently by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Many poems in Bright Dead Things elicit questions about how we extract and preserve these roots, and especially how we honor the memory of our Latinx migrant dead. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. on Monday, March 20, in the Blue Ridge Room, Highsmith Union.Īda Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. UNC Asheville welcomes United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón for an evening of poetry on at 7 p.m.
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