Ada Limòn was recently appointed the United States poet laureate. If you want to learn more about her and her work, NYT Books did a nice profile in May right before her most recent book was published. You might also find this brief bio helpful.
If you want to read some of her work, we have most of her books:
We also have access to a short segment on PBS News Hour called #IMHO. A poet’s take on looking to language for ‘radical hope’:
On a local note, Durham has recently appointed its first poet laureate, DJ Rogers.