Brown revealed that when he won the Pulitzer Prize, one of his first texts was from Limón, who needed just three words to convey her joy: “Told you so.”

Limón and Brown are friends, editing one another’s work and celebrating each other’s victories. So too did faculty, students and Emory’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, who read a new poem, “Sitcom.” Bellamkonda, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, and they both read favorite poems. I’m either deep in the bottom of the well or nowhere near water.”Īt 12th Night, it could be hard to pick Limón out there were poets and lovers of poetry ringing the room.

As she describes her path to the highest perch in poetry, serving as poet laureate, she notes that it was “anything but ordinary. Limón read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” at age 15 and felt marked in that moment as a poet. Her book “Bright Dead Things” (2015) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Raised in Sonoma, California, of Mexican and European ancestry, Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including her most recent, “The Hurting Kind” (2022), and “The Carrying” (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, was held at the Emory Conference Center, the first opportunity since the pandemic for revelers to do what they do best: read from well-thumbed works of favorite poets or try out original poems they have written. The 12th Night Revel, a fundraiser for the Stuart A. During her time at Emory, she also met with students to discuss poetry and writing. poet laureate and first Latina to be so named, on the evening of Feb.

Poetry lovers of all ages reveled in the company of Ada Limón, the U.S.

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