First U.S. Poet Laureate Appointed To A 2nd Term

The awardwinning Mexican American poet Ada Limón has been reappointed as the nation’s poet laureate, the first time a laureate will serve a second term.

Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, said in announcing the appointment that in her first term, Limón "has done so much to broaden and promote poetry

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Limón, who became the nation's 24th poet laureate last September, will unveil a poem on June 1 that will be engraved on NASA’s spacecraft that will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, a part of the Europa Clipper mission.

After Limón starts her second term in September, the Library will announce in August details of her signature project — a partnership with the National Park Service and the Poetry Society of America to present poems in featured national parks to expose more people to poetry, and laureate initiatives with federal and nonfederal partners.

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