Poet Ada Limón On Writing In Uncertain Times

As the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate, Ada Limón has spent her career writing about the hardest parts of being human: loss, grief, longing, and our relationship to nature. She believes that poetry can sometimes tell a better story than a traditional memoir. Limón spoke with Tonya Mosley about her new collection, Startlement.

Also, Ken Tucker reviews the re-release of the album Buckingham Nicks.

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