It is rare for someone to be both: a poet’s poet and a poet of the people. ADA LIMÓN is that rare writer, able to dazzle critics and readers alike. Over her seven books of poetry, she has woven a lyrical spell that is both sophisticated and also accessible. Her latest collection, Startlement: New and Selected Poems, from which she will read, includes radiant new poems and a selection of earlier ones. They remind us of her uncanny ability to trap a memory on the page, be it about youthful desire, the feel of a table, or the loss of love. But there is joy, so much joy, so much inhaling of the natural beauty of the universe. Separately and together, they are about time itself and how briefly we are here on this planet and our need to savor even our sorrows. To read Ada Limón’s poems is magical. To listen to her read them is a gift.