The Chicanx Writers and Artists Association, Fresno State University
Alice Peters Auditorium
5245 N Backer Ave
Fresno, CA 93726
United States
Free and open to the public.
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, 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 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. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.
The reading is free and open to all, and books will be available for purchase after the reading.
Location: Alice Peters Auditorium, inside the University Business Center, 5245 N. Backer Ave. Admission is free, and parking is free in Lots P5 and P6. Call 278-1569 or visit http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/english/events/index.html for details.
All participants are welcome; if you need special accommodations please call 559.278.1569.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.