"The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" is a book of poems inspired by the Therīgāthā, a collection of verses from the Elder Bhikkhunis of the early Sangha. Notable for their power and humanity, Matty's poems gain new immediacy in the readings of Ajahn Pasanno. Text of many of the verses and readings by other monastics may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.