Conversations with Poet Ada Limón

Name: Conversations with Poet Ada Limón
Start: 2025-04-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73106

Schedule

Tue, 01 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73106 | Oklahoma City, OK

"Say you'd still want this: us alive, right here, feeling lucky."
from Ada Limón’s "The Conditional"
This spring, Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poetry Series welcomes U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón!
Join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, for a poetry reading in the Kerr McGee Auditorium at Meinders School of Business, NW 26th & N. McKinley Ave, Oklahoma City. Community members are also invited to come early and share their own poetry at the open mic, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The reading will be followed by a book signing. As always, our friends at Full Circle Book Store will be on hand to sell copies of the poet's books. Admission is free but reserved tickets will be required. RSVP site coming soon!
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two children’s books: In Praise of Mystery, with illustrations by Peter Sís; and And, Too, The Fox, which will be released in 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and she was named a TIME magazine woman of the year in 2024. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that was engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025.
Kerr-McGee Auditorium, OCU Meinders School of Business
NW 27th & N. McKinley--free parking in the lots around the building.
Books will be available for purchase on site from our friends at
Full Circle Book Store.
ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! We look forward to seeing you there!