The Visiting Writers Series would like to promote our final reading event with PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA to you. Ó Tuama is a gay Irish Catholic poet. His reading is on MONDAY, APRIL 7 and will take place in SHELTON AUDITORIUM at 7:30 PM. We’d love to have you there!

Here’s some more info on Ó Tuama:
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, conflict resolution mediator, and the author of numerous works of literature. Among his published works are the acclaimed Poetry Unbound: 44 Poems On Being Together (2025), Kitchen Hymns (2025), Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love (2024), Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (2022), Feed the Beast (2022), Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017), In the Shelter (2015), Sorry for your Troubles (2013), and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012), which was longlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize.

For Ó Tuama, religion, conflict, power and poetry all circle around language, that original sacrament. Working fluently on the page and in public, Ó Tuama is a compelling poet, teacher, and group worker, and a profoundly engaging public speaker. He has worked with groups to explore story, conflict, their relationship with religion and argument, and violence. Using poetry, group discussion, and lectures, his work is marked both by lyricism and pragmatism and includes a practice of evoking stories and participation from attendees at his always-popular lectures, retreats, and events.

Pádraig Ó Tuama holds a BA Div validated by the Pontifical College of Maynooth, an MTh from Queen’s University Belfast and recently received a PhD in Theology through Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow exploring poetry, Irishness and religion. He splits his time between Belfast, Ireland and New York City.