The position was established in 1985, with other laureates including Louise Glück, W.S. More poetry: Amanda Gorman's poem on Texas shooting has captivated the internet They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.' 'Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. 'Ada Limón is a poet who connects,' Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement. She has published six books of poetry, most recently 'The Hurting Kind,' and also hosts the podcast 'The Slowdown.' Limón, who succeeds Joy Harjo, is an award-winning and unusually popular poet, her acclaimed collection 'Bright Dead Things' selling more than 40,000 copies. 29 with the traditional reading at the Library's Coolidge Auditorium, one of the laureate's few formal obligations. poet laureate, officially called the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. On Tuesday, the Library of Congress announced that the 46-year-old Limón had been named the 24th U.S. That part of poetry has always remained true to me.' I remember going to poetry readings at the bookstore where I worked when I was 16. 'It wasn't supposed to just be something read on page it was supposed be read out loud. 'I grew up with poetry being in the community,' says Limón, a native of Sonoma, California. NEW YORK - The country's next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public art form. Watch Video: Inauguration Day: Poet Amanda Gorman delivers powerful message Fantastical blue / water-dwellers, big, slow moaners of the coastal. It was all she wanted and I had gotten it wrong. Months before that, I got the dumb soup wrong.

What was happening-for whole weeks-was all that was happening and happening and happening. When she was dying, it was impossible to see forward to the next minute. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. But the pieces are still poetry, at its best, because they distill human experience so clearly and cleanly-they make moonshine. They feel like a cousin catching up on the deeply personal news of her life. The poems take you beyond questions of craft, and into real connection with the human.

The language of the poems in this book is so frank and honest, it startles. Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things was Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

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