Pádraig Ó Tuama has already been a powerful voice for many in our community, whether through his poetry, our collective reading of Borders and Belonging, or his sessions at our 2026 Winter Gathering. This fall, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome him into his newest role as a Faith & Justice Teaching Fellow. Pádraig will join us in September at SparkLab NYC and throughout the year for online conversations on the Faith & Justice Network. Thank you, Pádraig, for your stirring writings, your grounded presence, and your participation in our community this upcoming year!
More About Pádraig
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 2026 Copper Canyon Press will publish Love Between Men, his fifth 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 serves as faculty at Yale Divinity School as a Professor in the practice of Spirituality. He splits his time between Belfast and New York City.
“Pádraig Ó Tuama is an extraordinary person, whose influence extends quietly and gracefully across the world. His poetry bears these same qualities and brings him close. It is a gift to us all.” —Krista Tippett, Creator of On Being
“Ó Tuama has become a shepherd in the shambolic tradition of contemporary spirituality, treating poetry as a form of agnostic prayer. Poetry, for him, is the language the heart speaks not when it reaches for some externalized divinity but when it seeks to understand itself.” —The New Yorker
“Putting to work poetry and gospel, side by side with story and Celtic spirituality, Ó Tuama explores ideas of shelter along life’s journey, opening up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world. The reader can’t help but be drawn in, slip-sliding into the harbor of the author’s soulful words.” —Chicago Tribune