Lowell Lecture
Poetry Days Presents: Ada Limón: The Carrying
Date & Time
April 20, 2022 at 7 p.m.
Location
Boston College - Gasson 100
140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Ada Limón
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Chandler Shaw (shawcp@bc.edu, )
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by The Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things (2015) was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A. program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Ada Limón will give a reading from her book The Carrying, followed by an audience Q&A. Of The Carrying, Milkweed Editions writes: “Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility, and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses. And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives.”
Cosponsored by the Poetry Days Series and the English Department.