At first, Ada Limón wasn’t able to write poetry during the pandemic. And then she wrote a poem called “The Hurting Kind.” From that flowed the rest of her new book of poems under that same ...

Limón's dazzling new poetry collection, “The Hurting Kind,” will force a reader to sit in quiet contemplation after each poem, marveling at the beauty and power with which she wields her ...

Gathered by U.S. poet laureate Limón (The Hurting Kind), this beautifully curated anthology of 50 previously unpublished poems challenges preconceptions about “nature poetry” as it meditates ...

In her sixth collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón seeks to find the intimate connections between the seemingly disparate in the everyday: humans and the natural world, the living and ...

A well-curated meditation on the human experience, Ada Limón’s "The Hurting Kind" follows a speaker who grapples with the complex throes of everyday life.

In both The Hurting Kind and The Carrying, the opening poems focus on a woman seeing and knowing an animal and then turning that knowing gaze back on herself — wanting to be similarly known and ...

The Hurting Kind is a poetry collection by Ada Limón.

Ada Limón, the new U.S. Poet Laureate, talks about poetry's role in recording the pandemic and the last thing that made her cry.

This exquisite dual-language edition of Gil de Biedma’s selected poems reveals the voice of a preeminent poet of mid-20th-century Spain. Gil de Biedma (1929–1990), a closeted Continue reading ...

U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón talks about her poetry collection The Hurting Kind, sending a poem to space and what it’s like being shortlisted for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize.

Limón is the author of six poetry collections, “The Hurting Kind” being her most recent. The California native lives in Kentucky. BOOKS: Did you read a lot of Merwin during your residency?