# Ada Limón

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WONDER: Childhood, Memory, Listening to the Earth

“It's my past selves that I feel are so intertwined with the experience of moving home and of childhood, that they're inside of us, that they're with us.” Those past selves that the poet Ada Limón speaks of aren't ghosts, they are part of our present. Before we had the words to explain the world,...

Ada Limón Lives in 'Vertical Time' in Her Childhood Home

After three years as Poet Laureate, Ada Limón craved a smaller, more private life. Then she saw a sign: her childhood home was for sale. In this episode, Anna and Ada talk about writing, memory, chronic pain and making a life where she started. Ada Limón’s latest book is called Against Breaking: ...

Episode Two: Jillian Stacia on fighting fascism with a feather boa

Join us for our very first guest on the podcast. Jillian Stacia shares a selection of her poems with us, plus tells us about her new poetry collection, ‘Set the Bone’. In this conversation we talk about poetry as a way to tell difficult truths and remain fully alive in an unstable world. We absol...

Still Sharp: Lulu Miller on the Questions We Stop Asking | Lulu Miller #104

" Real curiosity, untethered, unsoftened, it's a pretty intense tool. And I think the kids haven't blunted the weapon by politeness or by fear of looking dumb or by the belief that there are certain things we should know. It's still sharp." - Lulu Miller Lulu Miller first found the power of ques...

#29: Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: The World's Worst Nun

Love what you hear? Send us fan mail! By age 15 Juana Inés de la Cruz was known as the most learned woman in Colonial Mexico. Born to a Spanish father and a Creole mother, Juana experienced the rigidity of the Mexican casta system. When her mother said no to letting Juana dress as a boy and go to...

Layli Long Soldier : We

Layli Long Soldier returns to the show to discuss her latest remarkable poetry collection We (and/or Wé). We talk about these two connotations of we/wé, the questions of address, audience, identity and kinship implicit in them both. We explore the many visual art installations documented within W...

Sermon of Swallows with Whitney Vale

Whitney Vale is the author of two chapbooks, Journey with the Ferry Man, and her latest, Sermon of Swallows, which is out now. Her poetry and prose have been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, Rogue Agent, Black Fork Review, and The Rumpus, among many others. In today’s episode, Whitney and Annmarie ...

Humans as Storytelling Animals: Poets, Novelists & Musicians on the Power of Writing

Why do we write? Is it to capture a memory before it vanishes or to build a bridge between the person we are and the stories we've been told? In this episode of The Creative Process, we explore the practice of writing as an awakening and tool for discovery with a group of celebrated poets, noveli...