Virtue and Verse: What Poetry Can Teach Us about Character

Join us on April 20th at 5:30pm, for an Evening with An Evening with Pádraig Ó Tuama. He will give a public talk on “Virtue and Verse: What Poetry Can Teach Us about Character.” Pádraig is an award-winning and widely acclaimed 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.

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