Women of the Year | Ada Limón

Ada Limón is no stranger to good news. In 2022, she was appointed the 24th poet laureate of the U.S., a role previously held by the likes of Tracy K. Smith, Joy Harjo, and Rita Dove. Last spring, she was granted a two-year second term. And in October came the announcement that she’d won a MacArthur “genius” grant. These are the achievements most writers only dream of—but there was one invitation that even the most inventive of poets would not have imagined: NASA reached out. It wanted Limón to compose an original poem to be launched into space.

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