Page to the Podium

Description

Page to the Podium, a literary speaker series, brings nationally recognized and award-winning writers to the Jackson Hole community. The series features poets, novelists, memoirists, and other great writers who contribute to the community’s cultural exchange by illuminating literature and ideas.

Page to the Podium events are community celebrations, so we host them off-site at venues that can hold greater capacity crowds (Four Seasons Ballroom and Center Theater), giving a wide-swath of the community the opportunity to experience a special event of literary entertainment together - for free!

May 21, 2024 at 7 pm, Center for the Arts: Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, Limón’s signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025.

“With poems written for vast and inspiring vistas to poems acknowledging the green spaces that flourish even in the most urban of settings, this anthology hopes to reimagine what ‘nature poetry’ is during this urgent moment on our planet.”
— Ada Limón

Past Speakers

The series kicked off in November 2006, with Frank McCourt, and has gone on to present renowned authors who are pillars in their field.

In recent years, Page to the Podium has also presented authors who’ve catapulted to the national stage through outstanding bestsellers and/or the most prestigious national prizes. These authors are next generation “pillars.”

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