My name is Rodrigo Tuma and I'm a poet from Ireland and I think that poetry offers the

world something that's small enough to carry close to your heart and big enough to carry

all the ordinary things that can be encompassed in any one day.

Hello friends, Krista here.

I've never met anyone who loves poetry more or more wonderfully draws into relief what

poetry works in us.

Why it is such an important way with words for humanity at all times and especially

for this tender time we inhabit.

Poetry is about what will unfold that's unexpected in the desire right here right now.

One of the functions of poetry is to make you uncomfortable, is to face it with the truth,

put together in a form of art that challenges you.

I began to realize that it could tell me things about myself that I didn't know.

Poetry is a way to open myself up to being alive in the world and my body and in my words

and in my mind.

Poetry invites us to make public the deep loves of our lives.

You realize people have been asking these questions for thousands of years and even though I'm

alone, I'm not alone.

It's been such a pleasure to offer the gift of Padrex, labor of love to you.

I would be, we would be, so grateful if you'd consider becoming a patron of poetry unbound.

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