2026 Community Gathering: Poetry, Place, Possibility

This year, we are excited to welcome Ada Limón, award-winning author and the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Limón’s poetry reminds us of our deep connection to one another and to the natural world, even in challenging and divisive times. In a keynote address and in conversation, she’ll share her unique insights on the power of engaging with the arts and with nature.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was 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 the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Her closing talk as the U.S. Poet Laureate, Against Breaking, will be available in book form from Scribner in April 2026.

REGISTRATION

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS ($25)

Tickets will be available for purchase in mid-March.

SPONSORSHIP

Sponsorship registrations are now being accepted. To become a sponsor, please register online at wsfoundation.org/sponsor by Tuesday, March 31.