Podcast Episodes

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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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Poetry Unbound — Season 4 Trailer

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, 11 months ago

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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…

5 years, 3 months ago

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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…

5 years, 3 months ago

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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…

5 years, 3 months ago

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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 …

5 years, 3 months ago

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