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Short and unhurried, Poetry Unbound is an immersive exploration of a single poem, hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Pádraig Ó Tuama greets you at the doorways of brilliant poems and walks you through — each one has wisdom to offer and questions to ask you. Already a listener? There’s also a book (Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World), a Substack newsletter with a vibrant conversation in the comments, and occasional gatherings.
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May 17, 2024
<p>In this concluding episode of "Poems as Teachers," our special miniseries on conflict and the human condition, host Pádraig Ó Tuama says the poems discussed in this offering are a different kind of teacher: “not as teachers that give us rules to follow — more so teachers that share something of their own intuition.” And for a final reflection, he offers Kai Cheng Thom’s “trauma is not sacred,” which speaks directly, fiercely, and lovingly to the pain, scars, and violence that we humans carry and inflict upon one another.</p><p>Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer. Kai Cheng is the author of the novel <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#media"><i>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir</i></a>; the essay collection <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#media"><i>I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World</i></a> (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book); the poetry collection <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#media"><i>a place called No Homeland</i></a> (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book); and the children's books <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#media"><i>From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea</i></a> (illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li) and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#media"><i>For Laika, the Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars</i></a> (illustrated by Kai Yun Ching). She won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2017.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/closing-poems-as-teachers-ft-kai-cheng-thom-episode-7/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>This is the final episode of "Poems as Teachers," a special seven-part miniseries on conflict and the human condition.</p><p>We’re pleased to offer <a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/trauma-is-not-sacred">Kai’s poem</a>, and invite you to read <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly <i>Poetry Unbound</i> Substack</a>, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the <i>Poetry Unbound</i> book</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen back to all our episodes</a>.</p>
May 17, 2024
<p>Being right may feel good, but what human price do we pay for this feeling of rightness? Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” translated by Stephen Mitchell, asks us to answer this question, consider how doubt and love might expand and enrich our perspective, and reflect upon the buried and not-so-buried ruins of past conflicts, arguments, and wounds that still call for our attention.</p><p>Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet and novelist born in Würzburg, Germany, and he lived from 1924 to 2000. His poetry is collected in numerous works, including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/yehuda-amichai-poems-as-teachers-episode-6/#media"><i>Open Closed Open</i></a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/yehuda-amichai-poems-as-teachers-episode-6/#media"><i>The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai</i></a>, and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/yehuda-amichai-poems-as-teachers-episode-6/#media"><i>The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai</i></a>.</p><p>Stephen Mitchell is an author, poet, and translator. His works of translation include <i>The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke</i>, <i>Gilgamesh</i>, and <i>Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda</i>. Mitchell translated <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/yehuda-amichai-poems-as-teachers-episode-6/#media" target="_blank"><i>The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai</i></a> with Chana Bloch.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/yehuda-amichai-poems-as-teachers-episode-6/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>This is the sixth episode of "Poems as Teachers," a special seven-part miniseries on conflict and the human condition.</p><p>We’re pleased to offer <a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-place-where-we-are-right">Yehuda’s poem</a>, and invite you to read <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly <i>Poetry Unbound</i> Substack</a>, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the <i>Poetry Unbound</i> book</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen back to all our episodes</a>.</p>
May 16, 2024
<p>In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offered and hastily swallowed, and silence is the soundtrack. What an exquisitely awkward triangle it is, and what a human, beautiful, and loving shape that can be.</p><p>Jericho Brown is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where he also directs the university’s creative writing program. His books of poetry are <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media"><i>The New Testament</i></a>, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media"><i>Please</i></a>, and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#media"><i>The Tradition</i></a>, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-poems-as-teachers-episode-5/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>This is the fifth episode of "Poems as Teachers," a special seven-part miniseries on conflict and the human condition.</p><p>We’re pleased to offer Jericho Brown’s poem, and invite you to read <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly <i>Poetry Unbound</i> Substack</a>, read <a href="https://linktr.ee/poetryunbound">the <i>Poetry Unbound</i> book</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen back to all our episodes</a>.</p>
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