Event Lectures and Symposia Live! at the Library: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Opening Reading

Date and Location

  • When: Thursday, September 29, 2022

    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

  • This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.

  • Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)

    10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Part of Hispanic Heritage Month ; Live at the Library ; Poet Laureate Events

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Award-winning poet Ada Limón will give her inaugural reading as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, with an introduction by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The historic reading marks the beginning of Limón's laureateship, and it traditionally launches the Library’s literary season.