Morning retreat with Pádraig
Sat, Jan 31
|Palo Alto
Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975 Cork, Ireland) is a poet with interests in conflict, language and religion. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios, and has published two anthologies (2022, 2025, both with WW Norton) from that podcast. In early 2025 Copper Canyon Press published Kitchen Hymns, his
Time & Location
Jan 31, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Palo Alto, 555 Waverley St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
About the event
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Distinguished Irish Poet, Theologian and Mediator.
Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound.
Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975 Cork, Ireland) is a poet with interests in conflict, language and religion. He presents Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios, and has published two anthologies (2022, 2025, both with WW Norton) from that podcast. In early 2025 Copper Canyon Press published Kitchen Hymns, his fourth poetry collection. A freelance artist, one of Ó Tuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. He splits his time between Belfast and New York City.
Morning retreat with Pádraig: 10 am to 1 pm. Cost: $30 (for food)
Capacity: 50 people
Theme: Changed at border crossings
An exploration on how crossing borders in our lives change us. They may be geographical borders, cultural, linguistic, religious, economic, race or any number of borders that we constantly seem to create. In the light of the Christian good news of a border crossing Savior, how can we, as a faith community, engage in hope with the bitter conflicts that emerge from the notion of “borders security” ?