2026 Community Gathering: Poetry, Place, Possibility

This annual gathering of community features a powerful keynote and conversation with Ada Limón, award-winning author and the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Limon’s poetry reminds us that storytelling and shared language can be tools of hope and resilience, nourishing our collective ability to care for our world and for each other. Join us for an evening of connection, creativity, and possibility in service of the place we call home.

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.