Tabula Poetica’s Annual Poetry Reading Series continues on Monday, October 2, 2017 with poet Ada Limón.
Ada Limón is the author of four books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her other books include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California.
Her talk will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Argyros Forum 209B, followed by a poetry reading at 7 p.m. in the Center for American War Letters, Leatherby Libraries.
Coming up later this semester:
November 27: Genevieve Kaplan
December 11: MFA Poetry Students Poetry Reading (4 p.m. in Fish Interfaith Center)