The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

A podcast by American Public Media

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1400 Episodes

  1. 1300: Genesis by Megan Pinto

    Published: 2/21/2025

  2. 1299: Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

    Published: 2/20/2025

  3. 1298: Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

    Published: 2/19/2025

  4. 1297: Jamboree, Evening, Midsummer by Austin Araujo

    Published: 2/18/2025

  5. 1296: In Which I Become (Skywoman) by Kenzie Allen

    Published: 2/17/2025

  6. 1295: Wind Ode by Sharon Olds

    Published: 2/14/2025

  7. 1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts

    Published: 2/13/2025

  8. 1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras

    Published: 2/12/2025

  9. 1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown

    Published: 2/11/2025

  10. 1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett

    Published: 2/10/2025

  11. 1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

    Published: 2/7/2025

  12. 1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs

    Published: 2/6/2025

  13. 1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

    Published: 2/5/2025

  14. 1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

    Published: 2/4/2025

  15. 1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad

    Published: 2/3/2025

  16. 1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell

    Published: 1/31/2025

  17. 1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard

    Published: 1/30/2025

  18. 1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Published: 1/29/2025

  19. 1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani

    Published: 1/28/2025

  20. 1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun

    Published: 1/27/2025

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Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectively take a moment to calm, to inspire, to learn, and to engage with the best emerging poets and established writers of our time and generations past, from Emily Dickinson to Danez Smith, from Amanda Gorman to Mary Oliver. Listen to our back catalog for episodes by our previous hosts, Tracy K. Smith and Ada Limón, as well as guest hosts Jenny Xie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tina Chang, Nate Marshall, Shira Erlichiman, and Jason Schneiderman. Our hosts and production team select poems that move them, and we hope they move you, too.