Spring Keynote with Ada Limón
Image by Ayna Lorenzo
Ada Limón
Free, in-person event, reservations required
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Doors open at 5:30pm
Reading at 6:00pm, followed by a book signing
Nestucca K-8 school, Cloverdale, Oregon
Sitka is bringing US Poet Laureate ADA LIMÓN to the Oregon Coast. Join us for an intimate evening of poetry and inspiration with one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Hear Ada Limón read from her acclaimed works and share insights on the power of language and the natural world. This in-person event will take place at Nestucca K8 in Cloverdale, Oregon. Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable experience.
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two children’s books: In Praise of Mystery, with illustrations by Peter Sís; and And, Too, The Fox, released in 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and she was named a TIME magazine woman of the year in 2024. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that was engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that was launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025.