New York Public Library
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Rooftop Terrace
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
United States
IN-PERSON EVENT. Free and open to the public.
Join the New York Public Library on the rooftop terrace of their Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library location for a reading and reception with Ada Limón and Sarah Ruhl, in celebration of Limón’s new collection The Hurting Kind. Free and open to the public; registration required!
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.
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), among many others. She is recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, and of, most recently, the 2016 Steinberg Prize. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
Studded with poems and songs, this correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.