Podcast Episodes

Divya Victor — First Petition

Season 5 Episode 3

A seven-year poem: from the start of the process to bring a mother to live in the US to the time she walks through the gate. 

Divya Victor is the auth…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Denise Low — Walking with My Delaware Grandfather

Season 5 Episode 2

We carry memory in our body: memories of our own selves, but memories of our forebears, too — talking with them as we walk, learning from them as the…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning

Season 5 Episode 1

How do you speak with your mother when she’s forgotten who you are? By turning to myth, it seems, and by holding gentleness with bewilderment, love w…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Poetry Unbound — Season 5 Trailer

Season 5

Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, April 11. Featured poets in this season include Rita Dove, Joshua Bennett, Tiana Clark, Y…

3 years, 9 months ago

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BONUS: An Invitation from Pádraig and Krista

Season 5

While preparing for the next season of Poetry Unbound, host Pádraig Ó Tuama sat down with Krista Tippett for a conversation about the power of poetry…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Danez Smith — i’m going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense

Season 4 Episode 24

In a poem brimming with love and nostalgia for winter, a poet leaves California to return to their Minnesotan homeplace, a place where winter makes s…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Craig Santos Perez — Rings of Fire

Season 4 Episode 23

What if the planet were as loved as a child? Taking the story of his daughter’s fever when she was one, Craig Santos Perez reflects on everything he …

4 years, 1 month ago

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Alberto Ríos — December Morning in the Desert

Season 4 Episode 22

Standing at the edge of a desert, surveying the stars on a December morning, the speaker in this poem observes the everything of everything. He is so…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes

Season 4 Episode 21

Yeshiva students stand around in the middle of the night while firemen find the cause of the alarm. It’s a student — distressed by distressing news a…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Aria Aber — The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine

Season 4 Episode 20

In a taxi, a poet speaks to the driver. It’s the only taxi in town. He mentions travel, mentions Afghanistan, that he was there with the forces. She’…

4 years, 1 month ago

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