Knight Auditorium
Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
United States
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join at the University of Illinois this special evening with U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Part conversation and part poetry reading, the event follows Limón as she shares how poetry connects us to the world, allows us to heal, to love, to grieve, and reminds us of the full spectrum of human emotion.
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.
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