![]() ![]() I had been impressed with her work for a long time, a fellow Kentucky poet, but I think that poem’s incredible. In fact, a newer poem that I just read this past February by Joy Priest, a wonderful poem called “ When I See the Stars in the Night Sky,” and I was really impressed. I was just reading Langston Hughes’s “ Poem,” the one about the friend, just that poem always is heartbreaking to me. Limón: You have so many incredible poems on the website, and I use them all the time for my own purposes. : Now, if you could direct readers to one poem or more than one poem on that you haven’t curated, what would it be and why? And so I wanted these poems to perform a little resurrection, I think. I think of April as an alive month, when we come back to life in some ways. I wanted them to feel like they were vibrating. And one of the things that I kept keeping in mind was I wanted poems that felt like they had a life to them that they were expansive in some way that they were reaching out towards a reader, whether that reader was one intimate person or a larger readership. Limón: You know, it’s always really interesting to try to think about the poems you want to select, the poets that are writing today. How did you approach curating Poem-a-Day for April? Ada, it is a great honor, thank you, thank you so much for taking the time to join me today.Īda Limón: Thank you for having me. Ada is the author of The Hurting Kind and The Carrying. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with our Guest Editor for April, which is National Poetry Month, U.S. : Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. In this short Q&A, Ada Limón discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. In 2023, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. ![]()
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