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2 months ago | 
tricycle.org | James Shaheen |Ada Limón
Poet Laureate Ada Limón talks with Tricycle about her firm belief in the power of poetry as an offering of loving-kindness to the world
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Ada Limón
In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen
years ago now, the L train came clanking by
where someone had fat-Sharpied a black heart
on the yellow pillar you leaned on during a bleak day
(brittle and no notes from anyone you crushed upon).
Above ground, the spring sun was the saddest one
(doing work, but also none). What were you wearing?
Something hopeful to show the world you hoped?
A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce
churro.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Bhante Gunaratana |Ada Limón
Wang PingSince graduating from Long Island University in 1987 with a master’s in English Literature, Wang Ping has earned a PhD from New York University and authored numerous books exploring culture, gender, sexuality, the environment, and her Chinese heritage. During her twenty-one years teaching at Macalester College, she founded the “Kinship of Rivers” project, which promotes community and ecological awareness along China’s Yangtze River and the Mississippi in the United States.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Ada Limón |James Shaheen
Ada Limón is a firm believer in the power of poetry. In her role as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, she has undertaken a series of projects harnessing poetry to transform our relationship to the natural world, from installing poems on picnic benches in national parks to writing a poem that will be engraved on a spacecraft sent to the second moon of Jupiter.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Ada Limón
Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast for free. If you would like to support this offering, please consider donating. Thank you! Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent project, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, is a collection of poetry that she edited in collaboration with the Library of Congress focused on how poetry can help us reconnect to the world around us.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Ada Limón
I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that I’ve even dug out the binoculars an old poet gave me back when I was young and heading to the Cape with so much future ahead of me it was like my own ocean. Tufted titmouse! I yell, and Lucas laughs and says, Thought so. But he is humoring me; he didn’t think so at all.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steve Sheinkin |Gary Golio |Jason Reynolds |Ada Limón
This dynamic collaboration from Sepetys (I Must Betray You) and Sheinkin (Impossible Escape), set in May 1940, is marked by swift, snappy, and suspenseful storytelling narrated by Polish Jewish siblings Jakob and Lizzie. Nineteen-year-old Jakob has been recruited from Cambridge University by Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park to help decipher messages encrypted using the German Enigma machine.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
lionsroar.com | Mariana Restrepo |Ada Limón
Mariana Restrepo: You don’t consider yourself a Buddhist. However, you often talk about Buddhist concepts as well as your meditation practice. Can you tell us how you first encountered Buddhism and meditation? Ada Limón: My meditation practice changed my life. When I started meditating, I recognized my own mortality and the urgency of my own life for the first time. Because of that, I chose art. Around 2007, I started meditating and learning about meditation in earnest.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Ada Limón |Isabelle McConville
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
3quarksdaily.com | Ada Limón |Jim Culleny
A New National AnthemThe truth is, I've never cared for the National Anthem. If you think about it, it's not a good song. Too high for most of us with "the rockets red glare" and then there are the bombs. (Always, always, there is war and bombs.) Once, I sang it at homecoming and threw even the tenacious high school band off key. But the song didn't mean anything, just a call to the field, something to get through before the pummeling of youth.
