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Acclaimed poets Jericho Brown and Brionne Janae join forces with “rogue scholar” Aífe Murray for a podcast that celebrates what works and breaks down what doesn’t in this award-winning and popular series. They interrogate what's historically and emotionally true in each episode of Dickinson -- and always bring it back to the poems that continue to intrigue, attract, and inspire.
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Poetry Unbound

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Short and unhurried, Poetry Unbound is an immersive exploration of a single poem, hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Pádraig Ó Tuama greets you at the doorways of brilliant poems and walks you through — each one has wisdom to offer and questions to ask you. Already a listener? There’s also a book (Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World), a Substack newsletter with a vibrant conversation in the comments, and occasional gatherings.
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Radio host and Pro Wrestling Commentator Mike McGuire brings you the week in Pro Wrestling, focusing mostly on North America, but with some international mixed in as well. Listen for weekly commentary, interviews and insight from industry insiders! Plus, subscribe to the podcast feed for other free weekly programming - always free, and ALWAYS about wrestling!
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This week, join Mike McGuire as he takes you through the week's wrestling headlines! With the passing of Kevin Sullivan, Mike and MOW Contributor, The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer, as well as Team MOW Member Joe Aguinaldo share unique perspectives on the elaborate career of the wrestling legend. Also this week, AEW President Tony Khan is teasi…
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First, it's Mitch's Birthday! Roman is back, AEW factions are hard to follow, and we're doing something for Jasper, Alberta! This week, the guys take apart SummerSlam as only they can. What did Mitch and Dimitri feel coming out of WWE's biggest party of the summer? Also, the guys go through some of the TV from this past week, speculate on where Rom…
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This is one of the most loaded episodes we've managed to cram into less than an hour for you, so hit that download button and get ready! Hot off the heels of WWE's SummerSlam 2024 in Cleveland Ohio, we have fan feedback and expert reviews of the show top to bottom! Plus: - WWE Announces Vancouver for Survivor Series: War Games - AEW makes a play to…
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As we count down to SummerSlam 2024 from Cleveland, Ohio, Dimitri Korolis and Mitch Hontzias give their fan perspective on the card, as well as other news from the week in pro wrestling TV! Topics include: - Britt Baker suspension story - WWE announces Survivor Series: War Games for Vancouver - Bryan Danielson's retirement - The Alternate Scenario …
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This week's episode is dedicated to Leonce Cormier, professionally known as Leo Burke. Stay subscribed to the feed as we will be presenting a special tribute to one of Canada's greatest wrestlers with several special guests. This week, we look at the everything-but-announcement from WWE that they plan to bring WrestleMania to London. When could fan…
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This week, Dimitri Korolis returns from vacation, and the Ouzos are back together to look back at the week in wrestling! Together, he and Mitch Hontzias cover some of the hilights (and lowlights) of what the big tv shows offered us including: - thanks to the gWo - AEW's latest Blood & Guts fiasco - Toni Storm and Mariah May bring it - AEW's Tony Kh…
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We've got a lot of voices on this week's show for you, including a deeper conversation with former WWE Intercontinental and European Champion, and current TNA Wrestling agent and producer, D'Lo Brown. Also, The Wrestling News' Mike Sempervive returns to go over the headlines of the week, and offer some thoughts on Japan, Mexico, AEW and WWE. Plus, …
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This week, Dimitri is still away, so Mitch has brought in a special guest, the one and only "G-W-Joe", Joe Aguinaldo! This week, the guys talk about everything from Hulk Hogan showing up at the RNC, to Cody Rhodes, AEW and much more. Also this week, Mitch and Joe tackle: -Damian Priest's WHC future as he faces Gunther at SummerSlam - AEW's hour-lon…
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Joe Aguinaldo and Mike McGuire are back together to celebrate the film catalogue of John Cena, the 2023 action film, "Hidden Strike". HIDDEN STRIKE (2023) Genre: Action Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cena Rating: PG-13 Year: 2023 Available: Netflix Thank you for your support of McGuire on Wrestling. To join the conversation for free join our Team MoW - M…
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Always free, always about pro wrestling. Your home for PROFESSIONAL wrestling talk radio and podcasting returns with a loaded docket, including hilights from a major interview that posted earlier this week, also for free, on this very podcast feed with AEW star, Chris Jericho. Also this week, a brief conversation, with the promise of a much longer …
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This week, Dadi is back in studio with Mitch Hontzias while Dimitri is galivanting around the world or something... but the guys are joined by Mitch's friend Larry who attended his FIRST AEW event in Calgary this past week. While there is a lot to break down from AEW Dynamite as witnessed live by all 3 guys, it was also a busy week in WWE and beyon…
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AEW's Chris Jericho joined Mike McGuire on 98-1 The Ranch in Lethbridge Alberta, not far from Calgary, where AEW presents Dynamite and Collision from the Scotiabank Saddledome this Wednesday Night! Chris and Mike talk about Jericho's storied history in Southern Alberta, the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final returning to the city, and even share…
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This week, we look at the massive announcement made by WWE's John Cena this week about his future in professional wrestling. What will his retirement mean to the company, the fans, and the futures for some up and coming superstars? Also, fresh off some impressive appearances in GCW and Dungeon Wrestling, Edmonton pro wrestler Harlon Abbott joins th…
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This week, Dimitri is away, but Mitch is back... and he's not alone... Joining Mitch this week, the much fabled, often talked about, and massive wrestling fan in his own right, South Carolina George. Together, Mitch and SCG take on the following: - Looking back at AEW's Forbidden Door - the guys offer their thoughts - AEW Dynamite and MJF doing wha…
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This week, it's another packed show as we are joined by "The Last of Us" star, Gabriel Luna! Gabe talks about growing up as a wrestling fan, and how a night out with his family solidified his choice. Also, Dave Meltzer joins the show to talk about a variety of news including Paul Heyman's brilliant performances, Dijak's release, Kota Ibushi's upcom…
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This week, Dimitri flys solo - does he excel, or get too close to the sun? Only one way to find out... Join Dimitri as he covers all sorts of things from TV this week including: - LA Knight is MONEY in the BANK bound! - Who killed WCW - leather jackets in wrestling - AEW pushing their own home grown talent - How to make Forbidden Door BETTER? - Sma…
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This week, a very special conversation with a wrestler who was half of one of the biggest acts to cross over from NXT to WWE, just to have it fall away. In that time, Eric Arndt has run an emotional gambit in and out of the world of professional wrestling, and he sat down with Mike McGuire following an appearance at Calgary's Dungeon Wrestling this…
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This week, Dadi Mike McGuire joins Mitch Hontzias and Dimitri Korolis for a fun look back at the week in wrestling, including stories from last night's Dungeon Wrestling show in Calgary, Alberta. Also, the guys discuss: - The Wyatt Sick6 - Swerve/Ospreay getting personal - Subway Wrestling - CM Punk/Drew McIntyre - Joe Hendry vs. Bobby Roode - Bret…
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This week, join Mike McGuire for an extensive breakdown on some of the biggest stories in pro wrestling, including: - Health Updates on Matt Riddle and Jim Ross - AJ Styles' upcoming match against Marufuji - Drew McIntyre's historic honour - Jeff Hardy joining Matt Hardy in TNA - TNA's Fall Schedule - Chad Gable's decision to stay with WWE - Dungeo…
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The most fun week in review show returns with Mitch Hontzias and Dimitri Korolis as they take you through some of the shows we saw this week. To join in the conversation anytime for FREE, join the Team MoW Facebook Page! To support the shows, leave a tip, or find out more about the programming, check out www.mcguireshow.com If you'd like to get you…
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In this concluding episode of "Poems as Teachers," our special miniseries on conflict and the human condition, host Pádraig Ó Tuama says the poems discussed in this offering are a different kind of teacher: “not as teachers that give us rules to follow — more so teachers that share something of their own intuition.” And for a final reflection, he o…
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Being right may feel good, but what human price do we pay for this feeling of rightness? Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” translated by Stephen Mitchell, asks us to answer this question, consider how doubt and love might expand and enrich our perspective, and reflect upon the buried and not-so-buried ruins of past conflicts, ar…
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In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offered and hastily swallowed, and silence is the soundtrack. What an exquisitely awkward triangle it is, and what a human, beautiful, and loving shape that can be. Jericho Brown is the Charles Howard Candl…
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In Mosab Abu Toha’s “Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa,” two barefoot siblings on a beach sketch out a map of their former home in the sand and argue about what went where. Their longing for return to a place of hospitality, family, memory, friends, and even strangers is alive and tender to the touch. Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, sch…
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We ask questions to find out the facts, but what if you can’t trust the answers, the questions, or the person who's asking the questions? In Constantine P. Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians,” translated by Evan Jones, leaders exercise a sinister kind of violence — they’ve taken over people’s imaginations with showy displays of wealth and privile…
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As appealing as it may sound, is it really possible to live in a world completely free of conflict? No. And since differences and disagreements are inevitable and natural, Joy Harjo gives ground rules in “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.” Her call to us echoes across time and space — a call to listen, to humility, to justice, and to recognizing…
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Host Pádraig Ó Tuama gives an overview of this Poetry Unbound mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. He also brings us Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics,” translated by Joanna Trzeciak, which covers statistics of the most human kind — like the number of people in a group of 100 who think they …
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If your home were a museum — and they all are, in a way — what would the contents of your refrigerator say about you and those you live with? In his poem “Refrigerator, 1957,” Thomas Lux opens the door to his childhood appliance and oh, does a three-quarters full jar of maraschino cherries speak volumes. Thomas Lux was an American poet and professo…
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The word “flush” is a verb, as in an activity that we do umpteen times a day. It’s also an adjective that conveys abundance. Fittingly, Rita Wong’s poem “flush” offers a praise song to water’s expansive and unceasing presence in our lives — from our toilets to our teacups, from inside our bodies to outside our buildings, and from our soil to our sk…
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Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley’s gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English epic poem roaring into this century, showing you why this tale of fraught family ties, power plays and posturing, and mighty, imperfect people is as relevant as ever. Maria Dahvana Headley is the New …
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A horse race from the 1980s may not seem like the obvious inspiration for a poem that celebrates so many of the things that make our lives worth living — good company (human and animal), good books, good food, and honest work — and that is just part of the surprise, delight, and surging joy of Michael Klein’s “Swale.” Michael Klein is a two-time wi…
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What holds our bodies together? Yes, there are the biological components, such as the cells, fluids, fibers, but what about the bone-deep stuff, the histories, myths, aches, resolves? In “Our Bird Aegis,” poet Ray Young Bear evokes an adolescent eagle to show how this blend of the visceral, the inherited, and the self-made abides in each of us, no …
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While disputes over contested lands result in damage that can be seen and documented, they also create countless unseen ruptures in the hearts, minds and souls of the humans caught in the chaos. By giving voice to yearning, Suji Kwock Kim’s poem “Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border” shows how bearing witness and asking…
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In “ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS,” Amber McBride treats us to a playful litany of language that twists and leaps and never stumbles. Flavored with old-time Christianity, old-time hoodoo, and a modern alchemy all her own, it talks back to prejudice, reclaims the words meant to take people down, and forges new identities that shimmer wi…
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A fragile and wondrous technology that we all possess, the human breath powers any number of things in our lives — speeches, feats of music, athleticism, and more. Carl Dennis’s powerful and meditative poem “Breath” calls on us to take a moment, give our breath our full attention, and celebrate it. Carl Dennis is the author of 13 works of poetry, i…
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Our lives are filled with distances, the physical spans that we travel but also the stranger, vaster expanses between our past and our present or between feeling anchored and connected and feeling terribly alone. A poem can capture all of those in a way that a map can’t, as Elisa Gonzalez superbly demonstrates in “To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self.” …
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Most of us do our eavesdropping shyly and secretively, but Ofelia Zepeda’s poem “Deer Dance Exhibition” welcomes us to listen in on an exchange between people as they watch a ceremonial dance. Along the way, we get the sense that what we’re witnessing is more than a conversation — it’s the sounds and sensations of life itself. Ofelia Zepeda is a po…
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Even in the most uneventful of human lives, uncertainty and doubts will inevitably intrude. When faced with those, what can you do to steady yourself? One suggestion: Turn to the poem “When in Doubt” by Sandra Cisneros, where she generously shares some of the wisdom that she’s gleaned over the years. Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, n…
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To be alive is to be in conversation with the dead. The ghosts of loved ones are always swirling around us, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to catch a glimpse. In the poem “Three Mangoes, £1,” Kandace Siobhan Walker describes a surprising encounter with her late grandmother at a busy market, and an encounter with a stranger. Kandace Siobhan Walker…
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It is an intimate thing, to watch a lover while they sleep. In Francisco Aragón’s translation of Francisco X. Alarcón’s homoerotic poem, “Asleep You Become a Continent,” a man views his sleeping lover’s body like it’s a landscape: legs underneath sheets become mountains and valleys. The waking lover describes this view like an explorer might an unk…
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Conor Kerr’s “Winter Songs” depicts a future scene: coyotes roaming through a rewilded city, digging up the bones of Indigenous ancestors who then regenerate and reclaim what was taken. Power is dismantled, something original is restored. Conor Kerr is a Métis/Ukrainian writer living in Edmonton. A member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, he is desce…
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Valencia Robin’s poem portrays a tense relationship between mother and daughter; perhaps each resembling the other too much. In desperation — and shock — the daughter says the worst thing she can think of to her mother. What follows is like the fall of a dictator, a coup, an end, an opening. Valencia Robin is an interdisciplinary artist whose pract…
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In a poem about how a small moment can help you make a wise decision, Eugenia Leigh finds the strength to go back home after storming out. No self-pity in the poem, just humor and brilliance. She had every reason to leave, and finds every reason to return. Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca (…
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Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, January 1. Featured poets in this season include Amber McBride, Eugenia Leigh, Francisco Aragón, Ray Young Bear, and many more. New episodes released every Monday and Friday through February 23. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, or wherever you listen.…
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Friends, Pádraig here — we are awakening your Poetry Unbound feed to share this brilliant episode from the newest season of On Being, which is well underway. Conversations on love and loss, comedy and ecology, social creativity, poetry, and more all await you in the On Being feed — subscribe now and don’t miss out. And — Poetry Unbound Season 8 is …
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A central duality appears in the work of Henri Cole: the revelation of emotional truths in concert with a “symphony of language” — often accompanied by arresting similes. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Henri, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they discuss the role of anima…
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems are filled with butchery and blood as she carves space for desire, motherhood, and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants to coexist in life and on the page. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Aimee, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore the…
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Through her poetry, Patricia Smith generously, skillfully puts language around what can be seen both in the present and deliberately looking back at oneself. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Patricia, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore how memory, persona, and a …
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So much of what was once deemed impossible was found — during Covid — to be possible. Here, a poet watches a tent, a huge temporary hospital, be raised up on the green of Central Park, a place she’d previously walked her dog. Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), which…
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How to remember a beloved who died tragically, violently? Remember the violence? Sometimes, yes. But also this: remember his love of flowers. Jenny Mitchell is the author of the poetry collections Her Lost Language (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2019) and Map of a Plantation (2021). Her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man (2022), is a Poetry…
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