Poetry Unbound

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Subscribers: 1640
Reviews: 8
Episodes: 199

Serena
 Jan 22, 2024
What could be better than an Irish man reading and explaining poetry? Pádraig's love of poetry permeates this podcast, and I especially enjoy, on occasion, hearing poets read their work in their own voice. Ad-free. Transcripts available.


 Aug 1, 2023

Lauren
 Dec 16, 2020
Each episode has a reading of a poem, followed by the host's musings or sharing of a related personal anecdote and then a repetition of the poem. A very soothing podcast. Hearing the poem a second time allows me to more deeply understand.

Denise
 Nov 2, 2020
Just discovered the new episodes. Life is good.


 Oct 15, 2020
Amazing.


 Mar 18, 2020

a listener
 Mar 9, 2020
saving my life


 Feb 25, 2020

Description

Short and unhurried, Poetry Unbound is an immersive exploration of a single poem, hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Pádraig Ó Tuama greets you at the doorways of brilliant poems and walks you through — each one has wisdom to offer and questions to ask you. Already a listener? There’s also a book (Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World), a Substack newsletter with a vibrant conversation in the comments, and occasional gatherings.

Episode Date
Denise Duhamel — How It Will End
Mar 03, 2025
Fady Joudah — [...]
Feb 24, 2025
Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson
Feb 17, 2025
Carmen Giménez — Ars Poetica
Feb 10, 2025
Rick Barot — The Singing
Feb 03, 2025
Diannely Antigua — Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me
Jan 27, 2025
Don McKay — Neanderthal Dig
Jan 20, 2025
Ernesto Cardenal — Give Ear to My Words (Psalm 5)
Jan 13, 2025
Diego Báez — Inheritance
Dec 20, 2024
Danielle Chapman — Trespassing with Tweens
Dec 16, 2024
Richard Langston — Hill walk
Dec 13, 2024
Robert Hayden — Those Winter Sundays
Dec 09, 2024
Taylor Johnson — Pennsylvania Ave. SE
Dec 06, 2024
Kinsale Drake — Put on that KTNN
Dec 02, 2024
Poetry Unbound — Season 9 Trailer
Nov 25, 2024
Closing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Kai Cheng Thom) | Ep 7
May 17, 2024
Yehuda Amichai — Poems as Teachers | Ep 6
May 17, 2024
Jericho Brown — Poems as Teachers | Ep 5
May 16, 2024
Mosab Abu Toha — Poems as Teachers | Ep 4
May 15, 2024
Constantine P. Cavafy — Poems as Teachers | Ep 3
May 14, 2024
Joy Harjo — Poems as Teachers | Ep 2
May 13, 2024
Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Wisława Szymborska) | Ep 1
May 12, 2024
Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957
Feb 23, 2024
Rita Wong — flush
Feb 19, 2024
Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf
Feb 16, 2024
Michael Klein — Swale
Feb 12, 2024
Ray Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis
Feb 09, 2024
Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border
Feb 05, 2024
Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS
Feb 02, 2024
Carl Dennis — Breath
Jan 29, 2024
Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self
Jan 26, 2024
Ofelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition
Jan 22, 2024
Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt
Jan 19, 2024
Kandace Siobhan Walker — Three Mangoes, £1
Jan 15, 2024
Francisco Aragón — Asleep You Become a Continent
Jan 12, 2024
Conor Kerr — Winter Songs
Jan 08, 2024
Valencia Robin — The Coup
Jan 05, 2024
Eugenia Leigh — How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home
Jan 01, 2024
Poetry Unbound — Season 8 Trailer
Dec 18, 2023
Clint Smith with Krista Tippett — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"
Nov 13, 2023
BONUS: Truth-seeking and the Symphony of Language with Henri Cole
Sep 01, 2023
BONUS: Making Space for the Erotic with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aug 30, 2023
BONUS: Poetry That Pays Attention with Patricia Smith
Aug 28, 2023
Maya C. Popa — They Are Building a Hospital
Jul 28, 2023
Jenny Mitchell — A Man in Love with Plants
Jul 24, 2023
Vidyan Ravinthiran — Artist
Jul 21, 2023
Mark Turcotte — Dear New Blood
Jul 17, 2023
Wo Chan — the smiley barista remembers my name
Jul 14, 2023
Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar
Jul 10, 2023
J. Estanislao Lopez — Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter
Jul 07, 2023
BONUS: A Conversation with Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
Jul 03, 2023
Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe — Blue
Jul 03, 2023
Charif Shanahan — Present Moment
Jun 30, 2023
Brenda Cárdenas — This Is Why
Jun 26, 2023
Nithy Kasa — Blouse
Jun 23, 2023
Selina Nwulu — Replay
Jun 19, 2023
John Lee Clark — Self Portrait
Jun 16, 2023
Kay Ulanday Barrett — Pantoum for recital when my mom said, don’t let them see you cry
Jun 12, 2023
dg nanouk okpik — In a Lock of Hair
Jun 09, 2023
On Poetry and Patronage: An Invitation to Love Us
Jun 07, 2023
Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs
Jun 05, 2023
Rowan Ricardo Phillips — Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
Jun 02, 2023
Alexander Posey — The Dew and the Bird
May 29, 2023
José Olivarez — No Time to Wait
May 26, 2023
Safia Elhillo — Ode to My Homegirls
May 22, 2023
Poetry Unbound — Season 7 Trailer
May 15, 2023
Ada Limón with Krista Tippett — “To Be Made Whole”
Feb 20, 2023
BONUS: A conversation with Lorna Goodison – and the humans behind Poetry Unbound
Dec 22, 2022
Danusha Laméris — Bonfire Opera
Dec 16, 2022
Rumi — You wake the dead to life
Dec 12, 2022
Naomi Shihab Nye — I Feel Sorry for Jesus
Dec 09, 2022
Victoria Adukwei Bulley — not quiet as in quiet but
Dec 05, 2022
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley — small talk or in my hand galaxies
Dec 02, 2022
Dan Vera — Norse Saga
Nov 28, 2022
Solmaz Sharif — Self-Care
Nov 25, 2022
Dunya Mikhail — Eva Whose Shadow Is a Swan
Nov 21, 2022
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura — What’s Kept Alive
Nov 18, 2022
Kevin Goodan — We give…
Nov 14, 2022
David Whyte — Leaving the Island
Nov 11, 2022
Andrés N. Ordorica — Mis raíces
Nov 07, 2022
Laura Villareal — My Worries Have Worries
Nov 04, 2022
Stephanie Burt — Prayer for Werewolves
Oct 31, 2022
Fiona Benson — Mama Cockroach, I Love You
Oct 28, 2022
Saddiq Dzukogi — Learning about Constellations
Oct 24, 2022
Adam Zagajewski — Transformation
Oct 21, 2022
Carolina Ebeid — Reading Celan in a Subway Station
Oct 17, 2022
Molly Twomey — The Drop Off
Oct 14, 2022
Hinemoana Baker — if i had to sing
Oct 10, 2022
Jennifer Huang — Departure
Oct 07, 2022
Gabeba Baderoon – The pen
Oct 03, 2022
Michael Kleber-Diggs — Gloria Mundi
Sep 30, 2022
David Wagoner — Lost
Sep 26, 2022
Poetry Unbound — Season 6 Trailer
Sep 19, 2022
Yu Xiuhua — Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You
Jun 03, 2022
Andy Jackson — The change room
May 30, 2022
Tiana Clark — My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work
May 27, 2022
Joshua Bennett — Owed to Your Father’s Gold Chain
May 23, 2022
Abigail Chabitnoy — If You’re Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You.
May 20, 2022
M. Soledad Caballero — Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain
May 16, 2022
Rafiq Kathwari — Mother Writes to President Eisenhower
May 13, 2022
Caroline Bird — Little Children
May 09, 2022
Marilyn Nelson — The Truceless Wars
May 06, 2022
Richard Blanco — Looking for The Gulf Motel
May 02, 2022
Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places
Apr 29, 2022
Hannah Emerson — Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning
Apr 25, 2022
Kyle Carrero Lopez — Ode to the Crop Top
Apr 22, 2022
Divya Victor — First Petition
Apr 18, 2022
Denise Low — Walking with My Delaware Grandfather
Apr 15, 2022
Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning
Apr 11, 2022
Poetry Unbound — Season 5 Trailer
Apr 04, 2022
BONUS: An Invitation from Pádraig and Krista
Mar 28, 2022
Danez Smith — i’m going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense
Dec 17, 2021
Craig Santos Perez — Rings of Fire
Dec 13, 2021
Alberto Ríos — December Morning in the Desert
Dec 10, 2021
Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes
Dec 06, 2021
Aria Aber — The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine
Dec 03, 2021
Donika Kelly — In the Chapel of St. Mary’s
Nov 29, 2021
Linda Hogan — Song for the Turtles of the Gulf
Nov 26, 2021
Lory Bedikian — On the Way to Oshagan
Nov 22, 2021
Nico Amador — Flower Wars
Nov 19, 2021
Darrel Alejandro Holnes — Amending Wall
Nov 15, 2021
Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina
Nov 12, 2021
Major Jackson — Blunts
Nov 08, 2021
Andrés Cerpa — Seasonal without Spring: Autumn
Nov 05, 2021
Kaveh Akbar — How Prayer Works
Nov 01, 2021
Gail McConnell — Worm
Oct 29, 2021
Romeo Oriogun — Pink Club
Oct 25, 2021
Kathleen Flenniken — Married Love
Oct 22, 2021
Imtiaz Dharker — Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
Oct 18, 2021
No’u Revilla — Smoke Screen
Oct 15, 2021
BONUS: A Conversation with No’u Revilla
Oct 15, 2021
Jake Skeets — Daybreak
Oct 11, 2021
Tishani Doshi — Species
Oct 08, 2021
Jason Allen-Paisant — Right now I’m Standing
Oct 04, 2021
Jacob Shores-Argüello — Make Believe
Oct 01, 2021
Margaret Atwood — All Bread
Sep 27, 2021
Poetry Unbound — Season 4 Trailer
Sep 20, 2021
Katie Manning — What to Expect
Jun 18, 2021
Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War
Jun 14, 2021
Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You)
Jun 11, 2021
BONUS: A Conversation with Margaret Noodin
Jun 11, 2021
Martín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese
Jun 07, 2021
Roshni Goyate — Coconut Oil
Jun 04, 2021
b: william bearhart — When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
May 31, 2021
Esteban Rodríguez — 22 La Bota
May 28, 2021
Reginald Dwayne Betts — Essay on Reentry
May 24, 2021
Li-Young Lee — From Blossoms
May 21, 2021
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo — Battlegrounds
May 17, 2021
Matthew Olzmann — Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
May 14, 2021
Vievee Francis — How Delicious to Say It
May 10, 2021
Eavan Boland — Eviction
May 07, 2021
Jónína Kirton — Reconciliation
May 03, 2021
Lorna Goodison — Reporting Back to Queen Isabella
Apr 30, 2021
Hanif Abdurraqib — When We Were 13, Jeff’s Father Left The Needle Down On A Journey Record Before Leaving The House One Morning And Never Coming Back
Apr 26, 2021
Poetry Unbound — Season 3 Trailer
Apr 19, 2021
Christian Wiman — All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
Dec 18, 2020
Carlos Andrés Gómez — Father
Dec 14, 2020
Ellen Bass — Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh
Dec 11, 2020
R.A. Villanueva — Life Drawing
Dec 07, 2020
Zaffar Kunial — The Word
Dec 04, 2020
Dilruba Ahmed — Phase One
Nov 30, 2020
Layli Long Soldier — WHEREAS my eyes land on the shoreline
Nov 27, 2020
Chen Chen — I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
Nov 23, 2020
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill — Ceist na Teangan (The Language Issue)
Nov 20, 2020
Aracelis Girmay — Consider the Hands that Write this Letter
Nov 16, 2020
Tayi Tibble — Our Nan Lets Us Smoke Inside
Nov 13, 2020
Paul Tran — The Cave
Nov 10, 2020
Philip Metres — One Tree
Nov 06, 2020
Roger Robinson — A Portable Paradise
Nov 02, 2020
Seán Hewitt — Suibhne is wounded, and confesses
Oct 30, 2020
Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi — Say My Name
Oct 26, 2020
Lucille Clifton — song at midnight
Oct 23, 2020
Chris Abani — The New Religion
Oct 19, 2020
Molly McCully Brown — Transubstantiation
Oct 16, 2020
Natalie Diaz — Of Course She Looked Back
Oct 12, 2020
Natasha Trethewey — Miscegenation
Oct 09, 2020
James Wright — A Blessing
Oct 05, 2020
Gregory Pardlo — Wishing Well
Oct 02, 2020
Ada Limón — Wonder Woman
Sep 28, 2020
Poetry Unbound — Season 2 Trailer
Sep 14, 2020
Leanne O'Sullivan — Leaving Early
Apr 03, 2020
Help Shape the Next Season of Poetry Unbound
Mar 23, 2020
Emily Dickinson — 1383
Mar 20, 2020
Raymond Antrobus — Miami Airport
Mar 16, 2020
Patrick Kavanagh — The One
Mar 13, 2020
Ali Cobby Eckermann — Kulila
Mar 09, 2020
Kei Miller — Book of Genesis
Mar 06, 2020
Lemn Sissay — Some Things I Like
Mar 02, 2020
Joy Harjo — Praise the Rain
Feb 28, 2020
Ross Gay — Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt
Feb 24, 2020
Allison Funk — The Prodigal’s Mother Speaks to God
Feb 21, 2020
Jane Mead — Substance Abuse Trial
Feb 17, 2020
Ocean Vuong — Seventh Circle of Earth
Feb 14, 2020
Tracy K. Smith — Song
Feb 10, 2020
Marie Howe — My Mother’s Body
Feb 07, 2020
Faisal Mohyuddin — Prayer
Feb 03, 2020
Aimee Nezhukumatathil — On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Jan 31, 2020
Brad Aaron Modlin — What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
Jan 27, 2020
Welcome to Poetry Unbound
Dec 23, 2019