Best of Design Matters: Ada Limón
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Ada Limón

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 20261 hr 11 min

Ada Limón—24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of seven poetry books, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things—joins to discuss her new book, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, her childhood between two homes, her deep sensitivity to the natural world, and how poetry became a way to make sense of life’s strangeness, loss, and love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode of Design Matters originally appeared in March of 2026. Sometimes they come out backwards, sometimes they come out almost done, and I realize I've been writing it for a long time. And so by the time I got to the page, it's complete.

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And then sometimes it takes me months, even years to finish a poem. From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working

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on. On this episode, a conversation with Ada Limon about how she became a poet and the power of poetry to bring people together. Oh, there are other people that feel this way. Count on the exchange rates that you'd usually see on Google.

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