Poet Ada Limon in Sonoma on Aug. 24

Sonoma native to read from her latest collection.|

Latinx poet and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón, who was born and raised in Sonoma (and who still has a home here), will be reading from her forthcoming collection of poetry, “The Carrying,” at Readers’ Books at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24.

In addition to being a finalist for the National Book Award, Limon’s 2015 collection, “Bright Dead Things,” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a Best Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times. Later this month, Limon will grace the cover of Poets & Writers magazine, be interviewed by NPR’s Weekend Edition and be featured in O, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine.

NPR described “The Carrying” as “one of the most anticipated poetry books of 2018” and Publishers Weekly listed it as one of the “Top 10 Poetry Collections of Fall 2018.”

Fun fact: Limon was the very first person hired by Andy Weinberger to work at Readers’ Books in 1991.

“We have been following her literary career avidly ever since,” said Weinberger. “She was 16 years old, living across the street, above what is now Café La Haye, and she tapped on our door, even before we opened for business and asked for a job.” Limon graduated from Sonoma Valley High in 1993.

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