Prior to her national appointment in July, Limón won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for her book, “The Carrying.” Another collection, “Bright Dead Things,” was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. “I think maybe a month after I had written to Emma (Duffy-Comparone, director of the Writers House and associate professor of English) to invite Ada, she was named Poet Laureate of the United States.” “I heard her do an interview this summer to promote her most recent book, ‘The Hurting Kind,’ and immediately thought that she would be great to bring to Merrimack for that reason,” she explained. Limón was invited to speak virtually via Zoom by The Writers House of Merrimack College, a multidisciplinary initiative supported by the College’s English and creative writing departments.ĭiana Arterian, assistant director of the Writers House and assistant professor of practice and creative writing, said she long admired Limón as a poet and public thinker. You’ve gone to get us gas station coffee / and there is so much life all over the place.” This morning / the sun is coming alive in the kitchen.
“Last night we killed a possum, / out of mercy, in the middle of the road,” Limón read from “In the Country of Resurrection.” “We drove home under the sickle moon/laundry gone cold and dry on the line. True to the holiday’s theme, the Mexican-American writer read a handful of her poems that reflected death and resurrection.
Poet Laureate, celebrated Dia de Los Muertos this November with an online poetry reading and Q&A session with Merrimack College students and faculty. Poet Laureate Ada Limón spoke to Merrimack College students on Nov. Winston School of Education and Social Policy.
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