About the poet: Pádraig Ó Tuama, Anonymous, and Ada Limón
Pádraig Ó Tuama (born 1975, Cork, Ireland) is an Irish theologian, poet, and mediator whose work occupies a rare intersection between spirituality, language, conflict resolution, and the lyric. He led the Corrymeela Community — Northern Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation organization — from 2014 to 2019. His poetry collections include Readings from the Book of Exile (Canterbury Press, 2012) and Sorry for Your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013). He is the host of the celebrated podcast Poetry Unbound from On Being, through which he has introduced tens of thousands of listeners to contemporary and classic poetry.
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Ada Limón (born 1976, Sonoma, California) served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2022 to 2025, becoming the first Latina to hold the position. A Mexican-American poet of extraordinary emotional directness, her work melds close observation of the natural world with unflinching personal reflection — on illness, grief, family, and the complicated beauty of being alive. Her collection The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015) was a finalist for the National Book Award. A Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, she had a poem engraved aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched in 2024.
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