Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain

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Photograph by Lucas Marquardt / Courtesy Ada Limón

Ada Limón joins Kevin Young to read “You Belong to the World,” by Carrie Fountain, and her own poem “Hell or High Water.” Limón is the current United States Poet Laureate and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She’s the author of six books—including “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry—and the editor of the forthcoming anthology “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.”