Virtue and Verse: What Can Poetry Teach Us About Character
Monday, April 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Kulynych Auditorium (Porter Byrum Welcome Center)
Dr. Pádraig Ó Tuama is an award-winning Irish poet and peacebuilder, the author of ten books and anthologies of poetry, the incoming Professor of the Practice in Spirituality at Yale University, and the host of the popular podcast, Poetry Unbound, which has over 20 million downloads. Profiled in The New Yorker, Pádraig’s poems have been featured in Poetry Ireland Review, Ploughshares, Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, New England Review, and Kenyon Review, among others. His most recent books include Kitchen Hymns and 44 Poems on Being with Each Other. The former leader of the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, Pádraig is widely noted for his deep and searching reflections on healing, peacebuilding, and reconciliation and the power of poetry to express and effect personal and social change.
This event is free and open to the public. You can claim your free ticket by clicking on the button below.
We are partnering with Bookmarks to offer the opportunity to order a selection of Pádraig’s books in advance. Please include a note indicating that your purchase is for the April 20th event, where you will pick up from the Bookmarks sales table. Pádraig will be signing books after the event. You may pre-order by using the links below:
Our co-sponsors include: the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, LGBTQ+ Center, Wake Forest School of Divinity, Wake Forest University Press, and Wake the Arts.