It's the final day of #DecRecs, and one of the great joys of 2022 for me has been discovering the poetry of Ada Limón. It was hard to choose just one poem to recommend, but I do love this one very much, and it's so important for carrying into a new year: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving

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Instructions on Not Giving Up

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out

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I also strongly recommend her last two collections (the only ones I've read so far!), The Carrying and The Hurting Kind - and if you want to try more of her poems first, you can find several here: https://poets.org/poet/ada-limon#poet__works
About Ada Limón | Academy of American Poets

Ada Limón - Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a...