Hi friends, Patrick here. Hello to you from everybody at On Being and Portion Bound.

We're busy preparing the next season at Portion Bound. And in the meantime,

in this podcast feed, we're sharing this week's On Being Episode, which is a conversation

between Christa Tippett and Adelimone, who is the 24th US Port Laureate.

You might be familiar with Adel's poetry. We made an episode about her wonderful poem,

Wonder Woman a few years ago, and you're in for a complete treat in this conversation.

I've been listening to Christa since way before I knew her, and I still listen to her.

And this new season of On Being is magnificent. There's episodes about science and technology,

and conflict and communication, and woodworking, which I know you want to hear about,

and of course, episodes about poetry. And so from now until the end of April,

there'll be a new episode of On Being in your podcast feed every Thursday.

So go subscribe if you don't yet. And we will see you back here for a new season of

poetry in Bound in a few months. On Being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the John

Templeton Foundation, funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe

and wonder. Discover the latest findings on neuroscience, cosmology, and the origins of life

at templeton.org. I really believe that poetry is something we humans made almost as much as we

need water and air. We can forget this. And then there are times in a life, and in the life of the

world, where only a poem, perhaps in the form of the lyrics of a song, or a half sentence, we

ourselves write down, can touch the mystery of ourselves and the mystery of others.

So my interest, when I get into conversation with a poet, is not to talk about poetry,

but to delve into what this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being fully

human. This adventure were all on that is by turns treacherous and heartbreaking and revelatory

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