An Interview with Poet Ada Limón | The Hurting Kind: Poems

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Previously live-streamed on June 1, 2022: Boswell Books and Porchlight Book Company present an interview with Ada Limón, author of The Hurting Kind.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Ada Limón. "I am the hurting kind."
What does it mean to be the hurting kind?
With Limón's remarkable ability to trace thought, her latest poetry collection explores those questions - incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. Along the way, we glimpse loss. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world.
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ADA LIMÓN is the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things. Limón is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review, among others. She is the new host of American Public Media's weekday poetry podcast The Slowdown. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Ada was in conversation with Porchlight Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
SALLY HALDORSON's mission as Porchlight’s Managing Director is to make Porchlight a great place to work for employees, and a consistently high-performing service organization for everyone in or orbiting the publishing industry. After 25 years working in book retail, she has developed a penchant for business strategy, both as a socio-economic force and a literary genre. Happy to put her English and Creative Writing degrees to work, she helped craft three editions of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, and she reads, writes, and reviews for the company’s marketing team.