“The Quiet Machine” by Ada Limón

<p>Ada Limón reads her poem, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-quiet-machine/">The Quiet Machine</a>.” This poem is featured in Ada’s <i>On Being</i> conversation with Krista, “<a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/ada-limon-to-be-made-whole/">To Be Made Whole</a>.” Find more of her poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at <a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry-home/">Experience Poetry</a>.</p><p>Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, most recently, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9781639550494"><i>The Hurting Kind</i></a><i>. </i>Her volume <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9781571315120"><i>The Carrying</i></a> won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9781571314710"><i>Bright Dead Things</i></a> was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a former host of the poetry podcast <a href="https://www.slowdownshow.org/"><i>The Slowdown</i></a>, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina.</p>