Alamo Colleges District To Host U.S. Poet Laureates, Joy Harjo and Ada Limón, at Carver Community Cultural Center

The Alamo Colleges District is proud to announce it will welcome former U.S. Poets Laureates Joy Harjo and Ada Limón for an evening celebrating the 5th Annual National Day of Collective Healing.

This event will feature both a reading and a conversation, creating a space where poetry becomes a catalyst for community, compassion, and collective transformation. 

The event is free and open to the public and is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 29, 2026, from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the Carver Community Cultural Center.

“The Alamo Colleges District is proud to welcome Joy Harjo and Ada Limón,” said Chancellor Dr. Mike Flores. “We look forward to the insight and inspiration they will share with our faculty, staff, students, and the broader community.”

Harjo is the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of ten books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.

Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Space is limited. Free tickets can be reserved by clicking this link.