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Back to SearchRomeo Oriogun — Pink Club
Season 4 Episode 9
A club is a place for dancing, for abandon, for music, and for meeting strangers. Romeo Oriogun recalls a gay club that was for all those things, but…
4 years, 2 months ago
Kathleen Flenniken — Married Love
Season 4 Episode 8
In a poem of extraordinary poise, Kathleen Flenniken recounts her parents’ lively parties, their rich social life, their summer trips, and their frie…
4 years, 2 months ago
Imtiaz Dharker — Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
Season 4 Episode 7
A love poem with a playful title that sounds like an ad from a travel agent unfolds into a poem about choosing to stay at home. Imtiaz Dharker’s husb…
4 years, 2 months ago
No’u Revilla — Smoke Screen
Season 4 Episode 6
The life of a sugar worker is the center of this poem: a worker whose body and person bear the imprint of that industry, with its demands and smoke a…
4 years, 3 months ago
BONUS: A Conversation with No’u Revilla
Season 4
While preparing for this week’s episode of Poetry Unbound, host Pádraig Ó Tuama began an email correspondence with the poet, No‘u Revilla. The exchan…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jake Skeets — Daybreak
Season 4 Episode 5
In a slight change to the normal format, host Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks with the poet Jake Skeets who reads his poem “Daybreak,” a poem combining Diné l…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tishani Doshi — Species
Season 4 Episode 4
In a fantastical poem about the future, Tishani Doshi explores the present. She imagines a future where agriculture, forestry, and cultivation are th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jason Allen-Paisant — Right now I’m Standing
Season 4 Episode 3
In a poem considering trees, Jason Allen-Paisant opens up many associations with trees: in a woodland, there’s a dead tree, from which new forms of l…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jacob Shores-Argüello — Make Believe
Season 4 Episode 2
In a short poem recalling a childhood response to grief, Jacob Shores-Argüello brings us into the fantasy world of a child: leaving an ill adult in a…
4 years, 3 months ago
Margaret Atwood — All Bread
Season 4 Episode 1
In a poem of four stanzas, Margaret Atwood traces bread from its growth in bone-nurtured soil, to the warm ovens of baking, to the table, to the mout…
4 years, 3 months ago