The MACC will be collecting donations for the Maui Food Bank during this event. We ask that our patrons bring needed items for those impacted by the wildfires. Donation bins will be located near the MACC's main entry gates.

The Merwin Conservancy’s Green Room Series presents a reading and talk with Pádraig Ótuama (b. 1975 Cork, Ireland)

An award-winning poet and theologian 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 early 2025 Copper Canyon Press published Kitchen Hymns, his fourth poetry collection. A freelance artist, one of  Ótuama’s projects is poet in residence with the Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Center at Columbia University. He splits his time between Belfast and New York City.

The talk will be followed by light refreshments and a book signing. 

Click HERE for more information on Pádraig Ótuama

The Green Room series is presented by The Merwin Conservancy - www.merwinconservancy.org

Rooted in the convictions of renowned American poet W.S. Merwin, The Merwin Conservancy imagines ways of engaging with place, poetry, and practice.