An Evening With Ada Limón: U.S. Poet Laureate
Sat, Oct 11
|Swedish American Hall
Join us for an evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón as she reads and discusses Startlement, an essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry
Time & Location
Oct 11, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA
About The Event
A Litquake Festival 2025 Headliner Event...
Join us for an evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón as she reads and discusses Startlement, an essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. With no shortage of awards and accolades to her name (MacArthur Genius and Time Woman of the Year, anyone?), Limón looks back on her distinguished career and shares radiant new work for the first time.
$20 adv / $25 door
Doors at 7pm
21+
Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book…