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jouissance, chipotles in the chocolate. Consider the uvular awakenings Your name spun through the reel, wound up from the bass of me. How I want to say it, and hear my own, again. for Matthew” music: “Ashed to Air” by Gautam Srikishan] I read this poem because it so immediately appealed to me with gorgeous words. I mean, I love the word “delicious.” I love the word “gorgeous.” I love the word “knuckle.” But I think this poem is a poem — perhaps — where the poet, Vievee Francis, was thinking, “What are my favorite words?” And she might have made a list. I’m just gu...

Drogheda knowing as I do that my attention has no agency, none at all. Nor my rage.” [ music: “What Did You Not Hear” by Gautam Srikishan] So this poem is a study and a story of Eavan Boland’s grandmother. In 1904, the grandmother had gone on a trip to Dublin from Drogheda. That’s a journey of about 50 miles. Drogheda is a large town about 50 miles north of Dublin. And when the grandmother had got home to Drogheda after having been in Dublin, she found an eviction notice on her door. And evictions carry a long history in Ireland, being used as a tool of oppression, as a tool of empi...

Half of this poem is about feeling torn between two cultures. The other half heals the tear, seeing that a life can be a living bridge between the tensions of the poet’s identities.

Guest Lorna Goodison is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished contemporary poets. Her work appears in the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and her many honors include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Supplying Salt and Light, Controlling the Silver, Transcript Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and one of the things I love about poetry is reading poetry from different parts of the world. So often, the so-called canon highlights poets, often male poets, from just one part of the world or just a ...

Winter Words Author Series: Billy Collins Join us for a conversation that is sure to be witty, humorous, quirky, tender, and profound with Billy Collins who will discuss his latest book of poetry “Whale Day” with OnBeing’s Pádraig Ó Tuama. We understand the event registration form may be glitchy. If you experience any issues at all, please reach out to [email protected]. Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by the New York Times Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observatio...