Prairie Lights Virtual – Zoom

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Ada Limón to celebrate the release of her new book of poems THE HURTING KIND. Limón will be joined in conversation with Jennifer L. Knox. 

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Ada Limón is the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems. These include, most recently, The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award.

Jennifer L. Knox‘s most recent book of poems is Crushing It (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Granta, and Poetry, and five times in The Best American Poetry series. She is currently at work on MYCYOWA, a traveling public art installation supported by the Iowa Arts Council and the NEA. She lives in central Iowa and is the proprietor of Saltlickers, a small spice blend company.