On July 12, 2022, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Limón will begin her term as laureate on September 1, 2022, and on September 29 she will give a reading in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium.

“Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Hayden said. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.”

Limón offered the following comments on her appointment:

What an incredible honor to be named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Again and again, I have been witness to poetry's immense power to reconnect us to the world, to allow us to heal, to love, to grieve, to remind us of the full spectrum of human emotion,” Limón said. This recognition belongs to the teachers, poets, librarians and ancestors from all over the world that have been lifting up poetry for years. I am humbled by this opportunity to work in the service of poetry and to amplify poetry's ability to restore our humanity and our relationship to the world around us.

Limón will take up her duties in fall 2022, opening the Library’s annual literary season on September 29 with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium.

This guide provides an overview of print and online resources related to Ada Limón's life and work. To suggest additions to this guide, please contact the Library's poetry and literature reference librarians.