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Your poetry ritual: An immersive reading of a single poem, guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Unhurried, contemplative and energizing. New episodes on Monday and Friday, about 15 minutes each. Two seasons per year, with occasional special offerings. Anchor your life with poetry.

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Feb 20, 2023

Ada Limón with Krista Tippett — “To Be Made Whole”

Friends, we are awakening your _Poetry Unbound_ feed for a moment to share this episode from the big, beautiful new season of _On Being_. And Pádraig’s here with a quick hello and a glimpse of what more _On Being _conversations await you in coming months. You won’t want to miss — subscribe now in the _On Being _feed and catch each episode as it drops, every Thursday. And now… An electric conversation with Ada Limón's wisdom and her poetry — a refreshing, full-body experience of how this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being human at all times, but especially now. With an unexpected and exuberant mix of gravity and laughter — laughter of delight, and of blessed relief — this conversation holds not only what we have traversed these last years, but how we live forward. It unfolded at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, in collaboration with Northrop at the University of Minnesota and Ada Limón's publisher, Milkweed Editions. Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six books of poetry, most recently, _The Hurting Kind__. _Her volume _The Carrying__ _won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and her volume _Bright Dead Things__ _was_ _a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a former host of the poetry podcast _The Slowdown_, and she teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.