Ada Limon to be Featured During Stockton University's World Above Free Poetry Night

Ada Limón, author of three books of poetry, will be the featured poet at Stockton University’s “World Above Free Poetry Nights” on Wednesday, April 22, 7 p.m. at Dante Hall Theater, 14 North Mississippi Avenue in Atlantic City.

Limón’s works include “Lucky Wreck,” “This Big Fake World,” and “Sharks in the Rivers.”

She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University. Limón has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry.

She works as a freelance writer and splits her time between Lexington, Ky. and Sonoma, Calif. (with a great deal of time spent in New York in between). Her new book of poems, “Bright Dead Things” is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2015.

The South Jersey Poets Collective “The World Above Free Poetry Nights” is presented by Stockton University’s School of General Studies.

“The World Above Free Poetry Nights” continues its new format with host Ben Heins, visiting assistant professor of Writing at Stockton University.

The evening starts with the usual open mic where participants will read one poem (and only one poem) that is less than two minutes long. The break will occur just before 8 p.m. and participants will return to a free take-home writing prompt, introduced by the host or the prompt’s author.

The evening concludes with a reading from Limón.