Poetry Unbound

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Subscribers: 1515
Reviews: 8
Episodes: 177

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.

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 invites you to meet them with stories of your world. The poems are eager to meet you, too. For season 8, we have poems about beasts (dung beetles, horses, eagles and ourselves as well); poems with tensions between parents and children; poems about kingdoms and memories of the dead. There is translation, culture, erotica, water, mortality, and morality. 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
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