An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-end-of-poetry/">The End of Poetry</a>” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole/">To Be Made Whole</a>.”Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, including <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-carrying-poems-ada-limon/8997510">The Carrying</a>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bright-dead-things-poems-ada-limon/8996367">Bright Dead Things</a>, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent volume is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hurting-kind-ada-limon/17385091">The Hurting Kind</a>. As poet laureate, she edited the collection <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-are-here-poetry-in-the-natural-world-ada-limon/20274526">You Are Here</a>, part of her signature project focusing on how poetry can connect us to the natural world. She is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, a former host of the poetry podcast <a href="https://www.slowdownshow.org/">The Slowdown</a>, and an instructor in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina.

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