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Washington/CMEDIA: During April, the National Poetry Month 2023, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Ada Limón will be the guest editor for the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, reported Libtary of Congress (LOC).
U.S. poets laureate as Poem-a-Day guest editors feating for April was started by the Academy back in 2018 with racy K. Smith. Smith, who also edited the series in April of 2019, followed by Joy Harjo in 2020.
As of this year, the laureate guest editorship is a collaboration between the Academy and the Library of Congress.
Limón said of the twenty poems she selected for the series, “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. I wanted them to feel like they were vibrating. I think of April as an alive month, when we come back to life in some ways. And so I wanted these poems to perform a little resurrection, I think.”
LOC looks forward to posting more news on our laureate–including on her poem for a NASA space mission–in the weeks to come.
Established in 1800, LOC is the world’s largest library and the main research arm of the U.S. Congress as well as a home of the U.S. Copyright Office, offering access to the creative record of the United States and from around the world both on-site and online.
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