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Ada Limón Poems – Five of our Favorites by the Former US Poet Laureate

Ada Limón Poems

We’re continuing on with our National Poetry Month celebration! Each day, we’ve highlighted another American poet and shared a few of our favorite poems. Today’s we feature the poems of Ada Limón.

 

A New National Anthem
Ada Limón

 
SNIPPET:

Perhaps,
the truth is, every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we blindly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins. Don’t get me wrong, I do
like the flag, how it undulates in the wind
like water, elemental, and best when it’s humbled,

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