Des Moines Area Community College recently issued the following announcement.
The event is being held virtually this year
- Ada Limón (above, left) is the author of six books of poetry, including “The Carrying," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
- Maggie Smith (above, right) is the author of “Good Bones," which went viral internationally in 2016 and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.
- Public Radio Internationally called “Good Bones" the official poem of 2016.
The Annual DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, now in its 19th year, will be held virtually again this year. Local, regional and national authors will read from their works during weekly, one-hour events held online via Zoom. All events are free and open to the public.
Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including “The Carrying," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book “Bright Dead Things" was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
Her work has been supported most recently by a Guggenheim Fellowship. She grew up in Sonoma, Calif., and now lives in Lexington, Ky., where she writes, teaches remotely, and hosts the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, "The Slowdown." Her new book of poetry, “The Hurting Kind," is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in May 2022.
Maggie Smith is the author of “Good Bones," "The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison," “Lamp of the Body," and the national bestseller, “Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change." Her latest collection of poems, “Goldenrod," will be released in July 2021.
Smith's poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, the Washington Post, the Guardian and elsewhere.
In 2016, her poem “Good Bones" went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public Radio International called it “the official poem of 2016."
To attend the readings by Limón and Smith, go to the following Zoom link: https://DMACC.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Cpr38DJCRaa0o06ZKXNUFw.
The Zoom meeting is free and open to the public. For more on DMACC's Celebration of Literary Arts, contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu.
Selected Writings by Ada Limón:
Selected Writings by Maggie Smith:
Original source can be found here.
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