Ada Limón is the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems. These include, most recently, The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named 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 Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review, among others. She is the former host of American Public Media’s weekday poetry podcast The Slowdown. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

1. Spring

Give Me This

Invasive

Swear On It

Drowning Creek

Sanctuary

A Good Story

In the Shadow

Forsythia

And Too, the Fox

Stranger Things in the Thicket

Glimpse

The First Lesson

Anticipation

Foaling Season

Not the Saddest Thing in the World

Stillwater Cove

2. Summer

It Begins With the Trees

Banished Wonders

Where the Circles Overlap

When It Comes Down To It

The Magnificent Frigatebird

Blowing on the Wheel

Jar of Scorpions

The First Fish

Joint Custody

On Skyline and Tar

Cyrus & the Snakes

Only the Faintest Blue

Calling Things What They Are

“I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”

Open Water

Thorns

The Mountain Lion

3. Fall

Privacy

It’s the Season I Often Mistake

How We See Each Other

Sports

Proof

Heart on Fire

Power Lines

Hooky

My Father’s Mustache

Runaway Child

Instrumentation

If I Should Fail

Intimacy

4. Winter

Lover

The Hurting Kind

Against Nostalgia

Forgiveness

Heat

Obedience

The Unspoken

Salvage

What is Handed Down

Too Close

The End of Poetry