Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOfelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition
Season 8 Episode 7
Most of us do our eavesdropping shyly and secretively, but Ofelia Zepeda’s poem “Deer Dance Exhibition” welcomes us to listen in on an exchange betwe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt
Season 8 Episode 6
Even in the most uneventful of human lives, uncertainty and doubts will inevitably intrude. When faced with those, what can you do to steady yourself…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kandace Siobhan Walker — Three Mangoes, £1
Season 8 Episode 5
To be alive is to be in conversation with the dead. The ghosts of loved ones are always swirling around us, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to catch…
2 years, 8 months ago
Francisco Aragón — Asleep You Become a Continent
Season 8 Episode 4
It is an intimate thing, to watch a lover while they sleep. In Francisco Aragón’s translation of Francisco X. Alarcón’s homoerotic poem, “Asleep You …
2 years, 8 months ago
Conor Kerr — Winter Songs
Season 8 Episode 3
Conor Kerr’s “Winter Songs” depicts a future scene: coyotes roaming through a rewilded city, digging up the bones of Indigenous ancestors who then re…
2 years, 8 months ago
Valencia Robin — The Coup
Season 8 Episode 2
Valencia Robin’s poem portrays a tense relationship between mother and daughter; perhaps each resembling the other too much. In desperation — and sho…
2 years, 8 months ago
Eugenia Leigh — How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home
Season 8 Episode 1
In a poem about how a small moment can help you make a wise decision, Eugenia Leigh finds the strength to go back home after storming out. No self-pi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Poetry Unbound — Season 8 Trailer
Season 8
Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, January 1. Featured poets in this season include Amber McBride, Eugenia Leigh, Francisco …
2 years, 9 months ago
Clint Smith with Krista Tippett — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"
Season 7 Episode 24
Friends, Pádraig here — we are awakening your Poetry Unbound feed to share this brilliant episode from the newest season of On Being, which is well u…
2 years, 10 months ago
BONUS: Truth-seeking and the Symphony of Language with Henri Cole
Season 7 Episode 23
A central duality appears in the work of Henri Cole: the revelation of emotional truths in concert with a “symphony of language” — often accompanied …
3 years ago