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Back to SearchRobert Hayden — Those Winter Sundays
Season 9 Episode 3
What sacrifices were made by your parents when you were a child? How did you think about them as they were happening? And how do you think about them…
1 year, 9 months ago
Taylor Johnson — Pennsylvania Ave. SE
Season 9 Episode 2
When you look at people who are younger than you — particularly teenagers — does your mind ever take you back to yourself at their age? Taylor Johnso…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kinsale Drake — Put on that KTNN
Season 9 Episode 1
In Kinsale Drake’s poem “Put on that KTNN,” she writes about driving to a hometown as a familiar station crackles to life on the car radio. From this…
1 year, 9 months ago
Poetry Unbound — Season 9 Trailer
Season 9
Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, December 2. Featured poets in this season include Robert Hayden, Kinsale Drake, Danielle …
1 year, 9 months ago
Closing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Kai Cheng Thom) | Ep 7
Season 8
In this concluding episode of "Poems as Teachers," our special miniseries on conflict and the human condition, host Pádraig Ó Tuama says the poems di…
2 years, 4 months ago
Yehuda Amichai — Poems as Teachers | Ep 6
Season 8
Being right may feel good, but what human price do we pay for this feeling of rightness? Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” transl…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jericho Brown — Poems as Teachers | Ep 5
Season 8
In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offer…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mosab Abu Toha — Poems as Teachers | Ep 4
Season 8
In Mosab Abu Toha’s “Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa,” two barefoot siblings on a beach sketch out a map of their former home in the sand and…
2 years, 4 months ago
Constantine P. Cavafy — Poems as Teachers | Ep 3
Season 8
We ask questions to find out the facts, but what if you can’t trust the answers, the questions, or the person who's asking the questions? In Constant…
2 years, 4 months ago
Joy Harjo — Poems as Teachers | Ep 2
Season 8
As appealing as it may sound, is it really possible to live in a world completely free of conflict? No. And since differences and disagreements are i…
2 years, 4 months ago