Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)
10 1st Street SE
Washington, DC 20540
United States
This event is free and open to the public, but timed-entry passes are required to enter the Library of Congress. Click here for more information.
Join Ada Limón at the Library of Congress to conclude her historic two-term, three-year appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate. A lecture on the art of poetry will be followed by a book signing. More information can be found here.
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.
A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR “Books We Love” Selection
Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers.