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A new season of Poetry Unbound — its 11th! — will begin one month from now on Monday, November 30; episodes will be released on Mondays and Fridays. Before then, there will be two more Poetry Unbound In Conversation episodes. For now, in recognition of Halloween, Pádraig Ó Tuama ...  Show more

This episode isn’t about poetry but about another kind of art: the art of conflict resolution. In a deeply practical conversation, Pádraig Ó Tuama sits down with Columbia University’s Peter Coleman, author of The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization and an expert in constr ...  Show more

Michaela Angemeer is passionate about sharing her self love journey and inspiring readers to spend more time with their feelings. You can read her three books of poetry here: When He Leaves You, You'll Come Back to Yourself, and Please Love Me at My Worst. Join Najwa and Michaela ...  Show more

Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemplative eye to ordinary goodness in the present and to complicated ancestries we’re all reckoning with now. And she imparts a spaci ...  Show more

It’s pretty intriguing to follow poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems” whether we know it or not. Rarely, as she points out, do you hear anyone say they feel worse after writing things down. That, she says, can be a tool to survive in hard times l ...  Show more