Last week the fabulous poet Ada Limón was named the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, to which I say Brava! Brava! A perfect choice. Do you know her podcast “The Slowdown,” where she shares a poem and a story each day? It’s so good!
This isn’t the first Ada Limón poem I’ve put in the poetry box. I love her work. Her “Instructions on Not Giving Up” and “What I Didn’t Know Before” went in that first year, and some of her selections from “The Slowdown” have been there too. But this poem seemed a sweet way to celebrate her new role, one in which she is sure to triumph.
“...somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.”
