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Poetry Unbound

Kitchen Hymns

Saying the things you want to say

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Recent posts

Solstice stories

this June day

Jun 21•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Exploring the present with the past

and how conversations with centuries are contemporary

Jun 14•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Emily Dickinson, buttercups, and death

(plus a strange typo)

Jun 7•Poetry Unbound

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Some words about change

and the changes change contains

May 31•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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What time is it?

(it’s pantoum time)

May 24•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Upon this rock

“the rock is here, is extremely visible and extremely, oh, eloquent”

May 17•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Poetry Unbound

Open your world with poetry


Poems as Teachers: Conflict and the Human Condition

Yehuda Amichai’s “The Place Where We Are Right” and Kai Cheng Thom's "trauma is not sacred"

Poems as Teachers, Episodes 06 & 07

May 17, 2024•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Jericho Brown's "Hebrews 13"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 05

May 16, 2024•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Mosab Abu Toha's "Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 04

May 15, 2024•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Constantine P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 03

May 14, 2024•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Joy Harjo's "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 02

May 13, 2024•Pádraig Ó Tuama

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