To kick off the New Year, we welcome Ada Limón, our most recent past Poet Laureate of the U.S. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently: Startlement: New & Selected Poems; and a new short-form non-fiction book Against Breaking: On The Power of Poetry, released in 2026. She’ll be reading from her work and talking with our host, Meg Weston, about the power of poetry in our lives.