On Wednesday, November 6th, visiting poet Ada Limón will read her work in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) at 7 p.m. Limón’s most recent book, The Carrying (2018), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the top five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. A review in the New York Times praised Limón’s “novelistic knack for scene,” and said that “the narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection, her fifth, could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body.” Limón lives in Kentucky and teaches in the summer program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Undergraduate honors students at UT Austin may receive a free copy of The Carrying (courtesy of the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment) while supplies last, by visiting the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room and requesting the book. (The books are available now!) This reading is free and open to the public. The Joynes Reading Room is located on the east side of the Carothers building at 2501 Whitis Avenue on the UT Austin campus. Call 512-471-5787 for more information.