First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She is the author of two picture books and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First Draft 12th Anniversary Best Of - Ada Limón is an episode from First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing by Mitzi Rapkin.

This episode is 64:24 long.

This episode was published on Mar 27, 2026.

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