Cal State East Bay Welcomes Poet and Author Ada Limon
Ada Limon
- May 20, 2016
Local poet and nationally acclaimed author Ada Limon will be at Cal State East Bay for a poetry reading on May 23 at 7 p.m. The event, part of the English department’s Distinguished Writers Series, will be held in the Biella room at the University Library on the Hayward campus.
“Our annual spring term reading by a distinguished poet every year dovetails with our celebration of the student poets who have won the DeClercq poetry prize, a contest that attracts poetry from around the entire campus,” Professor of English Susan Gubernat said. “We are excited to bring Ada Limon, a nationally recognized poet, to CSUEB for this event.”
Limon, a Sonoma native, has won many prizes and awards for her books of poetry. Most recently, her collection “Bright Dead Things” was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her first collection, “Lucky Wreck,” won the Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is also the author of “The Big Fake World,” which won the Pearl Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, the Harvard Review and Pleiades, a biannual literary magazine.