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Back to SearchJohn Lee Clark — Self Portrait
Season 7 Episode 8
If you had to make a self portrait of your daily morning routine through language and sensation, what would you include? John Lee Clark offers memori…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kay Ulanday Barrett — Pantoum for recital when my mom said, don’t let them see you cry
Season 7 Episode 7
A memory from childhood is viewed through the lens of the Malaysian poetic form of pantoum. New things emerge when lines break and reform with new as…
2 years, 7 months ago
dg nanouk okpik — In a Lock of Hair
Season 7 Episode 6
If you could put a lock of your hair under a microscope, what would it contain? DNA certainly, but here in dg nanouk okpik’s poem, the hair also cont…
2 years, 7 months ago
On Poetry and Patronage: An Invitation to Love Us
Season 7
Pádraig reflects on the transformative force of poetry, and Krista joins with an invitation to pay tribute to the ongoing work of Poetry Unbound.
Make…
2 years, 7 months ago
Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs
Season 7 Episode 5
A social worker holds a group for teenagers at a school. They only half pay attention to him. Then something happens, and they pay attention to each …
2 years, 7 months ago
Rowan Ricardo Phillips — Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
Season 7 Episode 4
Have you ever had a private moment — perhaps in the middle of the night — in a large city? When it just seems like it’s you and the great dreaming me…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alexander Posey — The Dew and the Bird
Season 7 Episode 3
In a poem of strict rhymes and old forms, Alexander Posey (1873-1908), a poet of the Creek Nation, poses challenges to pomposity.
Alexander Posey was …
2 years, 7 months ago
José Olivarez — No Time to Wait
Season 7 Episode 2
In a church there are liturgies and prayers and statues. But in José Olivarez’s poem, there are more urgent things taking place, things that have “no…
2 years, 7 months ago
Safia Elhillo — Ode to My Homegirls
Season 7 Episode 1
Friendships deserve praise songs, and here’s a praise song — an ode — to friends that have crossed continents for each other, and would go further if…
2 years, 7 months ago
Poetry Unbound — Season 7 Trailer
Season 7
Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, May 22. Featured poets in this season include Selina Nwulu, Wo Chan, Rowan Ricardo Philli…
2 years, 8 months ago