The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers

    Published: 1/23/2025

  2. 1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir

    Published: 1/22/2025

  3. 1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson

    Published: 1/21/2025

  4. 1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis

    Published: 1/20/2025

  5. 1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

    Published: 1/17/2025

  6. 1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

    Published: 1/16/2025

  7. 1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

    Published: 1/15/2025

  8. 1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

    Published: 1/14/2025

  9. 1271: Refuge by Nehassaiu deGannes

    Published: 1/13/2025

  10. 1270: The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson

    Published: 1/10/2025

  11. 1269: Grace by Orlando Ricardo Menes

    Published: 1/9/2025

  12. 1268: The Pacific by Jennifer Jean

    Published: 1/8/2025

  13. 1267: What the Body Gives Away by Saba Keramati

    Published: 1/7/2025

  14. 1266: Echo by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 1/6/2025

  15. [encore] 1006: Something Sweet by Hannah Lowe

    Published: 1/3/2025

  16. [encore] 964: abundance of light by erica lewis

    Published: 1/2/2025

  17. [encore] 1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield

    Published: 1/1/2025

  18. [encore] 1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

    Published: 12/31/2024

  19. [encore] 845: Dear Future Me (#12) by Lena Moses-Schmitt

    Published: 12/30/2024

  20. [encore] 1026: Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson

    Published: 12/27/2024

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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.