Poetry For All

Episode 89: Pádraig Ó Tuama, excerpts from Kitchen Hymns

April 3rd, 2025  |  Season 6  |  54 mins 50 secs

belief, christianity, doubt, lyric, mythology, nature

This episode was recorded on March 2, 2025 at the Phillis Wheatley Heritage Center in St. Louis., Missouri. In this conversation, Pádraig Ó Tuama reads several poems from Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), his newest collection. We discuss subversive speech, belief and doubt, lyrical poetry, the psychology of poetic forms, and the power of ancient myths.