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NASA Project Coverage
“A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket, to Infinity and Beyond,” New York Times feature profile
“Poet Laureate Ada Limon talks about her poem engraved on a NASA spaceship,” NPR
“In Pursuit of Wonder, Ada Limón Goes to Outer Space,” Elle Magazine
Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon, NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast
“A Pair of Space-centric Picture Books Achieve Liftoff,” Publisher’s Weekly
YOU ARE HERE Project Coverage
“US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on writing, surrendering to nature (and her pug snoring),” USA Today
“Creatures of Constant Awe,” Tricycle Magazine
“The Newest National Parks Feature? Poetry.” Outside Magazine
"Closing the Gap Between Nature and the Self" — interview with Ada Limón for The New York Times Opinion
“The Present Tense: Poet Laureate Ada Limón,” Lion’s Roar
“Listening for Wonder With the U.S. Poet Laureate at Cuyahoga Valley National Park,” Midstory
“Ada Limón On Finding Poetry In The Natural World,” Electric Lit
“Poems for a "New Nature" with Ada Limón,” Living on Earth
“Sonoma native Ada Limón’s poet laureate project boosts awareness of nature,” Sonoma Index-Tribune
“Ada Limón's 'You Are Here' explores the natural world through poetry,” South Dakota Public Broadcasting
“An Unexpected Remedy for Anxious Thoughts” — interview with Oprah Daily
Orion — Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
MacARTHUR Genius Coverage
Poet Laureate Coverage
THE HURTING KIND Coverage
“100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” Time Magazine
“Resurrection on a daily basis: Exploring The Hurting Kind with Ada Limón,” The Rumpus
“The PEN Ten: An Interview with Ada Limón,” PEN America
“A Conversation with Ada Limón,” The Ezra Klein Podcast
“The beauty and the grief: Ada Limón’s ‘The Hurting Kind’” The Write Question
“Ada Limón: The Hurting Kind,” Between The Covers
“For Ada Limón, We're All the Hurting Kind,” Catapult
“Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist,” First Draft via Lit Hub.
“Ada Limón: ‘Every Book Is a New Way of Looking at the World,’” Interview with Nicole Chung in The Atlantic
“The Poetics of Praise: A Conversation with Ada Limón,” Los Angeles Review of Books
“Ada Limón Makes Poems for a Living,” The New York Times
“To Learn From the Natural World.” On Ada Limón’s Brilliant Poetic Project, LitHub
“Episode 6: Writing to Heal with Ada Limón” Conversation with Crystal Wilkinson, Words for the People
“Ada Limón Reckons With Poetry in Today’s World,” Vanity Fair
“Everything, All at Once,” departures Magazine
“For Ada Limón, animals and ancestors show the way,” Boston Globe
“The Millions Interviews Ada Limón,” The Millions
Poured Over: Ada Limón on The Hurting Kind,” Barnes & Nobles Podcast
“Short Conversation with Ada Limón,” McSweeny’s
“National Poetry Month 2022: Ada Limón Reads "A Good Story" from Her New Poetry Collection The Hurting Kind,” Oprah Daily
“A Poet Who Looks to Nature, and Honors Its Secrets,” The New York Times
“Poems of Lived Experience Backlit by Intimacy,” Alta
“Ada Limón and the Birds of Kentucky,” BirdNote
“Ada Limón and the Poetry of Rebellion,” Publisher’s Weekly
“Suzi F. Garcia in Conversation with Ada Limón,” The Poetry Magazine Podcast
"Von Diaz, Vallery Lomas, and Ada Limón," The Splendid Table
"Ada Limón On Making Poetry In A Pandemic And Finding 'Radical Hope' In Anxious Times"
SouthBound
"Ada Limón vs. Epiphany"
VS Podcast
"The Food I’ve Eaten, The Weeds I’ve Picked, The Loves I’ve Had"
American Literary Review
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Reviews
For The Hurting Kind
For The Carrying
"Each poem is a widening lens of the world, an unburdening of the things we carry deep within ourselves."
— Staff pick, The Paris Review
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For Bright Dead Things
"Using a litany of dark imagery, Limón's speaker maps where language fails..."
— Publisher's Weekly
Featured Poems
“Sea Turtle” and “Mortality,” The Lion’s Roar
“Startlement,” National Climate Assessment
“The Endlessness,” The New Yorker
“The End of Poetry,” The New Yorker
“Runaway Child,” LA Times
“Lover,” The Academy of American Poets
"The Hurting Kind," The Rumpus
“Sports,” The Believer
“The Unspoken,” The Atlantic
"The Year of the Goldfinches," The New York Times
"Privacy," The New Yorker
"Give Me This," Academy of American Poets