Join Us for an Evening with Pádraig Ó Tuama, celebrated Irish poet and theologian, is renowned for his podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being. This special event is hosted by the young people of the Called Leadership Program in partnership with St. Stephen's and the Vine Church and proudly sponsored by the Diocesan Children + Youth Ministries office.
Bring a dish to share, your creativity, and an open heart as we gather at the start of Lent to explore the beauty of words and the connections they inspire.
This free event is open to all ages, and families are warmly encouraged to attend with their children.
More about Pádraig Ó Tuama
Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poetry and prose centre around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. His work has won acclaim in circles of poetry, politics, psychotherapy and conflict analysis. His formal qualifications (PhD, MTh and BA) cover creative writing, literary criticism and theology. Alongside this, he pursued vocational training in conflict analysis, specialising in groupwork.
His published work is in the fields of poetry, anthology, essay, memoir, theology and conflict. A new volume of poetry — Kitchen Hymns — is forthcoming from CHEERIO in mid 2024.
Profiled in The New Yorker, Pádraig’s poems have been featured in Poetry Ireland Review, Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s Poem of the Week, and the Kenyon Review.
Pádraig has told stories at The Moth, has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, has presented programmes on poetry and language for BBC Radio 4; and has extended interviews with On Being, with Kim Hill on Radio NZ, and Soul Search on Radio National (Australia). In addition, he has interviewed poets and public figures including former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Hanif Abdurraqib, The Edge, Sarah Perry, Joy Harjo, Billy Collins and Martin Hayes.