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Season 4
Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, September 27. Featured poets in this season include Margaret Atwood, Kaveh Akbar, Danez S…
4 years, 3 months ago
Katie Manning — What to Expect
Season 3 Episode 16
This poem stretches the word ‘expect’ into dozens of formulations. Proceeding alphabetically through the index of the book, “What to Expect When You…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War
Season 3 Episode 15
The opening poem to Ilya Kaminsky’s masterpiece, “Deaf Republic,” is written in the voice of someone who is confessing their complacency during a tim…
4 years, 7 months ago
BONUS: A Conversation with Margaret Noodin
Season 3
After Margaret Noodin recited her poem, “Gimaazinibii'amoon” / “A Message to You,” for this week’s Poetry Unbound episode, she spoke with host, Pádra…
4 years, 7 months ago
Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You)
Season 3 Episode 14
A special bilingual poem in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin, a linguist who writes primarily in Anishinaabemowin. This poem of eight …
4 years, 7 months ago
Martín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese
Season 3 Episode 13
Bereavement brings all kinds of pressures. This poem by Martín Espada starts off with a grief-to-do-list: a phone call, a flight, a blizzard, cremati…
4 years, 7 months ago
Roshni Goyate — Coconut Oil
Season 3 Episode 12
In many ways this poem can be analyzed by how it ends: by examining the contents of organic shops. Roshni Goyate looks at one such item — coconut oil…
4 years, 7 months ago
b: william bearhart — When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
Season 3 Episode 11
When looking at Andy Warhol’s painting of Geronimo — a leader and medicine man of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe — b: william bearheart won…
4 years, 7 months ago
Esteban Rodríguez — 22 La Bota
Season 3 Episode 10
A poet considers his father, and, particularly, his father’s boots. These boots could be a hammer, a prop, a weapon. But Esteban Rodríguez also remem…
4 years, 7 months ago
Reginald Dwayne Betts — Essay on Reentry
Season 3 Episode 9
This ‘Essay on Reentry’ charts life after prison: and the way that others keep your sentence alive even when you’re wishing to just get on with your …
4 years, 7 months ago