About the poet: Pádraig Ó Tuama, Anonymous, and Ada Limón
Pádraig Ó Tuama (born in Cork, Ireland) is a poet, theologian, and conflict mediator whose work engages language, reconciliation, love, and the complexities of Irish identity. He studied theology at Trinity College Dublin and King's College London and served as the leader of the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland, the island's oldest peace and reconciliation organization, from 2014 to 2019. His poetry collections include Sorry for Your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013) and In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015). He is the host of the Poetry Unbound podcast from the On Being Project, through which he has introduced poetry to millions of listeners worldwide. He lives in New York.
See more in this collection »Ada Limón (born in 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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