Love, St. Mark's: A Benefit for Justice and Hope

Join best-selling author Ada Calhoun (author of "St. Mark's is Dead (2015)" , Crush: A Novel (2025) and Poet Theologian Pàdraig Ó Tuama for an intimate conversation on love in action.

About Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun is the New York Times–bestselling author of , hailed on the Today Show as the month's Best Romance, praised by the Washington Post for its "whirlwind of desire and possibility," and named by TIME as one of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 and by ELLE as one of the 29 Best Novels of 2025. Her memoir the New York Times called “a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul." Past books include , , and .

About Pádraig Ò 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. 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.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, East 10th Street, New York, NY, USA, United States

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