Kate Millar

1 month ago | publicbooks.org | Kate Millar |Geraldo L. Cadava |Megan Cummins

How do we engage with the sacred when religious language has been used to control, coerce, and erase alternate spiritualities, when history is littered with traumas enacted by institutionalized religion? Irish poet and host of On Being’s acclaimed podcast Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama is familiar with these kinds of traumas. Born in Cork, Ireland, in 1975, while north of the border the sectarian conflict of the Troubles raged, he grew up gay in the Catholic church.