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Poetry Unbound

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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…

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Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Haleh Liza Gafori 2026-09-04 · 58m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Adrian Matejka 2026-08-21 · 47m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Karen Leeder 2026-08-07 · 41m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Richard Scott 2026-07-24 · 52m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 2 of 2 2026-07-10 · 38m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Kimberly Campanello part 1 of 2 2026-06-26 · 50m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Rachel Mann and Yomi Ṣode 2026-06-12 · 56m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Fady Joudah 2026-05-29 · 47m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Don McKay 2026-05-15 · 45m
Poetry Unbound Bonus — Walter de la Mare 2026-03-09 · 9m
Leonard Cohen — Book of Mercy “I,8” 2026-03-06 · 17m
Billy-Ray Belcourt — Subarctica 2026-03-02 · 18m
Ruth Irupé Sanabria — Carne 2026-02-27 · 17m
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — Dukka 2026-02-23 · 16m
Rachel Mann — #TDOR 2026-02-20 · 21m
Sanah Ahsan — Ramadan’s Greeting 2026-02-16 · 16m
Kevin Hart — Prayer 2026-02-13 · 17m
Harryette Mullen — LUVTOFU 2026-02-09 · 15m
Stewart Henderson — How To Speak Love In A Storm? 2026-02-06 · 16m
Dante Micheaux — Theologies for Korah 2026-02-02 · 18m
Oksana Maksymchuk — Arguments for Peace 2026-01-30 · 20m
Armen Davoudian — Coming Out of the Shower 2026-01-28 · 16m
Orlando Ricardo Menes — Grace 2026-01-23 · 15m
Cyrus Cassells — Jasmine 2026-01-19 · 14m
W.S. Merwin — For The Anniversary of My Death 2026-01-16 · 15m
Kimblerly Blaeser - my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers 2026-01-12 · 20m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Marie Howe 2025-12-19 · 59m
Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Lorna Goodison 2025-12-12 · 54m
Denise Duhamel — How It Will End 2025-03-03 · 17m
Fady Joudah — [...] 2025-02-24 · 13m
Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson 2025-02-17 · 13m
Carmen Giménez — Ars Poetica 2025-02-10 · 15m
Rick Barot — The Singing 2025-02-03 · 18m
Diannely Antigua — Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me 2025-01-27 · 16m
Don McKay — Neanderthal Dig 2025-01-20 · 15m
Ernesto Cardenal — Give Ear to My Words (Psalm 5) 2025-01-13 · 17m
Diego Báez — Inheritance 2024-12-20 · 20m
Danielle Chapman — Trespassing with Tweens 2024-12-16 · 16m
Richard Langston — Hill walk 2024-12-13 · 12m
Robert Hayden — Those Winter Sundays 2024-12-09 · 12m
Taylor Johnson — Pennsylvania Ave. SE 2024-12-06 · 13m
Kinsale Drake — Put on that KTNN 2024-12-02 · 15m
Poetry Unbound — Season 9 Trailer 2024-11-25 · 1m
Closing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Kai Cheng Thom) | Ep 7 2024-05-17 · 13m
Yehuda Amichai — Poems as Teachers | Ep 6 2024-05-17 · 14m
Jericho Brown — Poems as Teachers | Ep 5 2024-05-16 · 13m
Mosab Abu Toha — Poems as Teachers | Ep 4 2024-05-15 · 16m
Constantine P. Cavafy — Poems as Teachers | Ep 3 2024-05-14 · 17m
Joy Harjo — Poems as Teachers | Ep 2 2024-05-13 · 18m
Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Wisława Szymborska) | Ep 1 2024-05-12 · 10m
Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957 2024-02-23 · 14m
Rita Wong — flush 2024-02-19 · 16m
Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf 2024-02-16 · 16m
Michael Klein — Swale 2024-02-12 · 14m
Ray Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis 2024-02-09 · 14m
Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border 2024-02-05 · 16m
Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS 2024-02-02 · 17m
Carl Dennis — Breath 2024-01-29 · 15m
Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self 2024-01-26 · 15m
Ofelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition 2024-01-22 · 15m
Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt 2024-01-19 · 15m
Kandace Siobhan Walker — Three Mangoes, £1 2024-01-15 · 16m
Francisco Aragón — Asleep You Become a Continent 2024-01-12 · 13m
Conor Kerr — Winter Songs 2024-01-08 · 15m
Valencia Robin — The Coup 2024-01-05 · 14m
Eugenia Leigh — How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home 2024-01-01 · 16m
Poetry Unbound — Season 8 Trailer 2023-12-18 · 1m
Clint Smith with Krista Tippett — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones" 2023-11-13 · 66m
BONUS: Truth-seeking and the Symphony of Language with Henri Cole 2023-09-01 · 65m
BONUS: Making Space for the Erotic with Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2023-08-30 · 61m
BONUS: Poetry That Pays Attention with Patricia Smith 2023-08-28 · 68m
Maya C. Popa — They Are Building a Hospital 2023-07-28 · 16m
Jenny Mitchell — A Man in Love with Plants 2023-07-24 · 13m
Vidyan Ravinthiran — Artist 2023-07-21 · 13m
Mark Turcotte — Dear New Blood 2023-07-17 · 16m
Wo Chan — the smiley barista remembers my name 2023-07-14 · 12m
Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar 2023-07-10 · 17m
J. Estanislao Lopez — Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter 2023-07-07 · 13m
BONUS: A Conversation with Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2023-07-03 · 38m
Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe — Blue 2023-07-03 · 17m
Charif Shanahan — Present Moment 2023-06-30 · 15m
Brenda Cárdenas — This Is Why 2023-06-26 · 16m
Nithy Kasa — Blouse 2023-06-23 · 12m
Selina Nwulu — Replay 2023-06-19 · 13m
John Lee Clark — Self Portrait 2023-06-16 · 13m
Kay Ulanday Barrett — Pantoum for recital when my mom said, don’t let them see you cry 2023-06-12 · 13m
dg nanouk okpik — In a Lock of Hair 2023-06-09 · 14m
On Poetry and Patronage: An Invitation to Love Us 2023-06-07 · 2m
Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs 2023-06-05 · 15m
Rowan Ricardo Phillips — Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same 2023-06-02 · 13m
Alexander Posey — The Dew and the Bird 2023-05-29 · 12m
José Olivarez — No Time to Wait 2023-05-26 · 11m
Safia Elhillo — Ode to My Homegirls 2023-05-22 · 12m
Poetry Unbound — Season 7 Trailer 2023-05-15 · 2m
Ada Limón with Krista Tippett — “To Be Made Whole” 2023-02-20 · 73m
BONUS: A conversation with Lorna Goodison – and the humans behind Poetry Unbound 2022-12-22 · 28m
Danusha Laméris — Bonfire Opera 2022-12-16 · 15m
Rumi — You wake the dead to life 2022-12-12 · 15m
Naomi Shihab Nye — I Feel Sorry for Jesus 2022-12-09 · 15m
Victoria Adukwei Bulley — not quiet as in quiet but 2022-12-05 · 15m
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley — small talk or in my hand galaxies 2022-12-02 · 18m
Dan Vera — Norse Saga 2022-11-28 · 13m
Solmaz Sharif — Self-Care 2022-11-25 · 14m
Dunya Mikhail — Eva Whose Shadow Is a Swan 2022-11-21 · 15m
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura — What’s Kept Alive 2022-11-18 · 14m
Kevin Goodan — We give… 2022-11-14 · 14m
David Whyte — Leaving the Island 2022-11-11 · 15m
Andrés N. Ordorica — Mis raíces 2022-11-07 · 14m
Laura Villareal — My Worries Have Worries 2022-11-04 · 13m
Stephanie Burt — Prayer for Werewolves 2022-10-31 · 13m
Fiona Benson — Mama Cockroach, I Love You 2022-10-28 · 16m
Saddiq Dzukogi — Learning about Constellations 2022-10-24 · 15m
Adam Zagajewski — Transformation 2022-10-21 · 13m
Carolina Ebeid — Reading Celan in a Subway Station 2022-10-17 · 15m
Molly Twomey — The Drop Off 2022-10-14 · 15m
Hinemoana Baker — if i had to sing 2022-10-10 · 14m
Jennifer Huang — Departure 2022-10-07 · 15m
Gabeba Baderoon – The pen 2022-10-03 · 12m
Michael Kleber-Diggs — Gloria Mundi 2022-09-30 · 14m
David Wagoner — Lost 2022-09-26 · 13m
Poetry Unbound — Season 6 Trailer 2022-09-19 · 2m
Yu Xiuhua — Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You 2022-06-03 · 15m
Andy Jackson — The change room 2022-05-30 · 13m
Tiana Clark — My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work 2022-05-27 · 17m
Joshua Bennett — Owed to Your Father’s Gold Chain 2022-05-23 · 14m
Abigail Chabitnoy — If You’re Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You. 2022-05-20 · 11m
M. Soledad Caballero — Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain 2022-05-16 · 15m
Rafiq Kathwari — Mother Writes to President Eisenhower 2022-05-13 · 15m
Caroline Bird — Little Children 2022-05-09 · 15m
Marilyn Nelson — The Truceless Wars 2022-05-06 · 14m
Richard Blanco — Looking for The Gulf Motel 2022-05-02 · 18m
Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places 2022-04-29 · 12m
Hannah Emerson — Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning 2022-04-25 · 14m
Kyle Carrero Lopez — Ode to the Crop Top 2022-04-22 · 12m
Divya Victor — First Petition 2022-04-18 · 15m
Denise Low — Walking with My Delaware Grandfather 2022-04-15 · 12m
Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning 2022-04-11 · 15m
Poetry Unbound — Season 5 Trailer 2022-04-04 · 2m
BONUS: An Invitation from Pádraig and Krista 2022-03-28 · 16m
Danez Smith — i’m going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense 2021-12-17 · 14m
Craig Santos Perez — Rings of Fire 2021-12-13 · 15m
Alberto Ríos — December Morning in the Desert 2021-12-10 · 16m
Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes 2021-12-06 · 15m
Aria Aber — The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine 2021-12-03 · 18m
Donika Kelly — In the Chapel of St. Mary’s 2021-11-29 · 15m
Linda Hogan — Song for the Turtles of the Gulf 2021-11-26 · 16m
Lory Bedikian — On the Way to Oshagan 2021-11-22 · 18m
Nico Amador — Flower Wars 2021-11-19 · 12m
Darrel Alejandro Holnes — Amending Wall 2021-11-15 · 17m
Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina 2021-11-12 · 16m
Major Jackson — Blunts 2021-11-08 · 16m
Andrés Cerpa — Seasonal without Spring: Autumn 2021-11-05 · 17m
Kaveh Akbar — How Prayer Works 2021-11-01 · 15m
Gail McConnell — Worm 2021-10-29 · 14m
Romeo Oriogun — Pink Club 2021-10-25 · 17m
Kathleen Flenniken — Married Love 2021-10-22 · 17m
Imtiaz Dharker — Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime! 2021-10-18 · 12m
No’u Revilla — Smoke Screen 2021-10-15 · 18m
BONUS: A Conversation with No’u Revilla 2021-10-15 · 34m
Jake Skeets — Daybreak 2021-10-11 · 18m
Tishani Doshi — Species 2021-10-08 · 15m
Jason Allen-Paisant — Right now I’m Standing 2021-10-04 · 16m
Jacob Shores-Argüello — Make Believe 2021-10-01 · 16m
Margaret Atwood — All Bread 2021-09-27 · 15m
Poetry Unbound — Season 4 Trailer 2021-09-20 · 2m
Katie Manning — What to Expect 2021-06-18 · 19m
Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War 2021-06-14 · 17m
BONUS: A Conversation with Margaret Noodin 2021-06-11 · 24m
Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You) 2021-06-11 · 16m
Martín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese 2021-06-07 · 16m
Roshni Goyate — Coconut Oil 2021-06-04 · 17m
b: william bearhart — When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo 2021-05-31 · 14m
Esteban Rodríguez — 22 La Bota 2021-05-28 · 16m
Reginald Dwayne Betts — Essay on Reentry 2021-05-24 · 17m
Li-Young Lee — From Blossoms 2021-05-21 · 15m
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo — Battlegrounds 2021-05-17 · 16m
Matthew Olzmann — Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem 2021-05-14 · 17m
Vievee Francis — How Delicious to Say It 2021-05-10 · 15m
Eavan Boland — Eviction 2021-05-07 · 16m
Jónína Kirton — Reconciliation 2021-05-03 · 14m
Lorna Goodison — Reporting Back to Queen Isabella 2021-04-30 · 13m
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 2021-04-26 · 17m
Poetry Unbound — Season 3 Trailer 2021-04-19 · 2m
Christian Wiman — All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs 2020-12-18 · 11m
Carlos Andrés Gómez — Father 2020-12-14 · 17m
Ellen Bass — Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh 2020-12-11 · 16m
R.A. Villanueva — Life Drawing 2020-12-07 · 15m
Zaffar Kunial — The Word 2020-12-04 · 12m
Dilruba Ahmed — Phase One 2020-11-30 · 16m
Layli Long Soldier — WHEREAS my eyes land on the shoreline 2020-11-27 · 17m
Chen Chen — I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party 2020-11-23 · 19m
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill — Ceist na Teangan (The Language Issue) 2020-11-20 · 13m
Aracelis Girmay — Consider the Hands that Write this Letter 2020-11-16 · 13m
Tayi Tibble — Our Nan Lets Us Smoke Inside 2020-11-13 · 14m
Paul Tran — The Cave 2020-11-10 · 12m
Philip Metres — One Tree 2020-11-06 · 16m
Roger Robinson — A Portable Paradise 2020-11-02 · 12m
Seán Hewitt — Suibhne is wounded, and confesses 2020-10-30 · 13m
Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi — Say My Name 2020-10-26 · 14m
Lucille Clifton — song at midnight 2020-10-23 · 13m
Chris Abani — The New Religion 2020-10-19 · 12m
Molly McCully Brown — Transubstantiation 2020-10-16 · 13m
Natalie Diaz — Of Course She Looked Back 2020-10-12 · 15m
Natasha Trethewey — Miscegenation 2020-10-09 · 11m
James Wright — A Blessing 2020-10-05 · 12m
Gregory Pardlo — Wishing Well 2020-10-02 · 16m
Ada Limón — Wonder Woman 2020-09-28 · 16m
Poetry Unbound — Season 2 Trailer 2020-09-14 · 2m
Leanne O'Sullivan — Leaving Early 2020-04-03 · 12m
Help Shape the Next Season of Poetry Unbound 2020-03-23 · 1m
Emily Dickinson — 1383 2020-03-20 · 7m
Raymond Antrobus — Miami Airport 2020-03-16 · 10m
Patrick Kavanagh — The One 2020-03-13 · 8m
Ali Cobby Eckermann — Kulila 2020-03-09 · 9m
Kei Miller — Book of Genesis 2020-03-06 · 6m
Lemn Sissay — Some Things I Like 2020-03-02 · 10m
Joy Harjo — Praise the Rain 2020-02-28 · 7m
Ross Gay — Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt 2020-02-24 · 9m
Allison Funk — The Prodigal’s Mother Speaks to God 2020-02-21 · 8m
Jane Mead — Substance Abuse Trial 2020-02-17 · 9m
Ocean Vuong — Seventh Circle of Earth 2020-02-14 · 12m
Tracy K. Smith — Song 2020-02-10 · 9m
Marie Howe — My Mother’s Body 2020-02-07 · 8m
Faisal Mohyuddin — Prayer 2020-02-03 · 9m
Aimee Nezhukumatathil — On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance 2020-01-31 · 8m
Brad Aaron Modlin — What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade 2020-01-27 · 8m
Welcome to Poetry Unbound 2019-12-23 · 1m
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