Thursday, February 23, 2023

Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.  Recently Krista Tippet had the opportunity to interview her as part of a program at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis.  This is a delightful program and I highly recommend it.  Ada is insightful and also very funny.  In the program she reads a number of her poems.  She and Krista discuss how isolation during the pandemic affected her writing. 

Krista Tippet's On Being started out as program on public radio and ran for many years but now I believe she is just doing it as a podcast.  


Here is a link to the podcast on the On Being website but you can also find it through Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.


January 2025 Reading

When January began I knew it was going to be a stressful month and so my reading theme was "escape". I planned for it by putting a...