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Saying the things you want to say

Jan 5, 2025 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

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"how often and how well"

poetry of life and death

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Inhabiting the wide world

On the poetry of Marie Howe

Dec 21, 2025 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

Oh the places you’ll go!

Lorna Goodison’s Jamaican Inferno

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You cannot extinguish

that which lights itself

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And thank you, no

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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

Jericho Brown's "Hebrews 13"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 05

May 16, 2024 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

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

Poems as Teachers, Episode 04

May 15, 2024 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

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

Poems as Teachers, Episode 03

May 14, 2024 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

Joy Harjo's "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings"

Poems as Teachers, Episode 02

May 13, 2024 • Pádraig Ó Tuama

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