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Ada Limón, 24th poet laureate of the United States, visited the University of Illinois on Thursday to read some of her work at the Spurlock Museum. Limón was appointed the title of poet laureate in July 2022 by the Library of Congress. The poet laureate is a highly esteemed title given to a poet who...

An introduction to Ada Limón, the newly appointed poet laueate of the United States for the 21st century.

Her work explores "what it looks like to have America in the room"

Limón is a laureate for the 21st Century.

Ada Limón is the first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named U.S. poet laureate. Through her understanding of social media and the power of connection, she strives to make poetry accessible to everyone.

The most recent U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, was the first Native American to fill the role and she passed the baton to Limón in July 2022.

This week, award-winning poet Ada Limón was named the nation’s 24th poet laureate by the Library of Congress. Limón, a Latina of Mexican-American descent lives in Lexington, Kentucky and teaches at Queens University in Charlotte in the school’s Masters of Fine Arts Latin America program.