Poet Ada Limón has seen her work travel farther than most.
Among her other accomplishments, the Sonoma native was U.S. poet laureate from the fall of 2022 to April 2025 and has received countless awards and honors, including a Macarthur “genius’ fellowship and in 2024 being named one of TIME magazine’s women of the year.
Her poem, “In Praise of Mystery,” is engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft and is currently en route to Jupiter’s second moon…