The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1353 Episodes

  1. 1263: Film Theory by Xan Forest Phillips

    Published: 12/18/2024

  2. 1262: The Future of Terror / 1 by Matthea Harvey

    Published: 12/17/2024

  3. 1261: Immersive by Joseph Millar

    Published: 12/16/2024

  4. 1260: Fade Away by Amorak Huey

    Published: 12/13/2024

  5. 1259: When you have to kill everybody in the room by Niki Herd

    Published: 12/12/2024

  6. 1258: The Trees by Jericho Brown

    Published: 12/11/2024

  7. 1257: Time || Immemorial by Daniel Simon

    Published: 12/10/2024

  8. 1256: A Dominican Poem by Danielle Legros Georges

    Published: 12/9/2024

  9. 1255: The Presence in Absence by Linda Gregg

    Published: 12/6/2024

  10. 1254: That's My Heart Right There by Willie Perdomo

    Published: 12/5/2024

  11. 1253: On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay

    Published: 12/4/2024

  12. 1252: The Canonization by John Donne

    Published: 12/3/2024

  13. 1251: On Living by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

    Published: 12/2/2024

  14. 1250: 52 Blue by Sappho Stanley

    Published: 11/29/2024

  15. 1249: Farmers' Market by Molly Fisk

    Published: 11/28/2024

  16. 1248: Listening to Monk's Misterioso I Remember Braiding My Sisters' Hair by Christopher Gilbert

    Published: 11/27/2024

  17. 1247: A Garden and a Street by Teresa Cader

    Published: 11/26/2024

  18. 1246: Big Purple Peonies by Margaret Ross

    Published: 11/25/2024

  19. 1245: Telescope by Louise Glück

    Published: 11/22/2024

  20. 1244: Poem by Frank O'Hara

    Published: 11/21/2024

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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.