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Season 8
Host Pádraig Ó Tuama gives an overview of this Poetry Unbound mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. H…
2 years, 4 months ago
Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957
Season 8 Episode 16
If your home were a museum — and they all are, in a way — what would the contents of your refrigerator say about you and those you live with? In his …
2 years, 6 months ago
Rita Wong — flush
Season 8 Episode 15
The word “flush” is a verb, as in an activity that we do umpteen times a day. It’s also an adjective that conveys abundance. Fittingly, Rita Wong’s p…
2 years, 6 months ago
Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf
Season 8 Episode 14
Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley’s gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Klein — Swale
Season 8 Episode 13
A horse race from the 1980s may not seem like the obvious inspiration for a poem that celebrates so many of the things that make our lives worth livi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ray Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis
Season 8 Episode 12
What holds our bodies together? Yes, there are the biological components, such as the cells, fluids, fibers, but what about the bone-deep stuff, the …
2 years, 7 months ago
Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border
Season 8 Episode 11
While disputes over contested lands result in damage that can be seen and documented, they also create countless unseen ruptures in the hearts, minds…
2 years, 7 months ago
Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS
Season 8 Episode 10
In “ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS,” Amber McBride treats us to a playful litany of language that twists and leaps and never stumbles. Fl…
2 years, 7 months ago
Carl Dennis — Breath
Season 8 Episode 9
A fragile and wondrous technology that we all possess, the human breath powers any number of things in our lives — speeches, feats of music, athletic…
2 years, 7 months ago
Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self
Season 8 Episode 8
Our lives are filled with distances, the physical spans that we travel but also the stranger, vaster expanses between our past and our present or bet…
2 years, 7 months ago