Live with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Poetry For All

Irish poet and conflict mediator Pádraig Ó Tuama will join award-winning podcast hosts Abram Van Engen and Joanne Diaz for an afternoon of conversation! The live podcast recording will be followed by a book signing. This event is generously supported by the January Series at Calvin University.

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. 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 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, Fady Joudah, Hanif Abdurraqib, The Edge, Sarah Perry, Joy Harjo, Billy Collins and Martin Hayes.

The Phyllis Wheatley branch of the YWCA was formed in 1911 to serve African American women and girls.The facility on Locust is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the City of St. Louis. The Ballroom at Phyllis Wheatley Heritage Center is conveniently located just minutes away from the heart of Midtown in the up-and-coming Locust Business District, and blocks from CITYPARK stadium, Union Station and the Gateway Arch.

If you, like us, you crave perspectives that challenge and change your thinking, insights from charismatic speakers from around the world, and a community of people becoming better global citizens, the January Series was made for you.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Phyllis Wheatley Heritage Center, 2711 Locust Street, St. Louis, United States