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Medium distance photo of Ada Limon on stage behind a plexiglass podium, smiling broadly.

Ada Limón’s Final Lecture as Poet Laureate: “You have to love.”

Posted by: Maria Peña

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's final lecture last week in the Coolidge Auditorium was a love letter to poetry to libraries and librarians. Her lecture, titled “Against Breaking: On the Public and Private Power of Poetry,” framed poetry as a shared, not solitary, experience and as a celebration of humanity’s range of voices and perspectives.