The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
1462 Episodes
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[encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago
Published: 5/20/2025 -
[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate
Published: 5/19/2025 -
[encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock
Published: 5/16/2025 -
[encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō
Published: 5/15/2025 -
[encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher
Published: 5/14/2025 -
[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong
Published: 5/13/2025 -
[encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla
Published: 5/12/2025 -
[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne
Published: 5/9/2025 -
[encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron
Published: 5/8/2025 -
[encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin
Published: 5/7/2025 -
[encore] 860: Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu
Published: 5/6/2025 -
[encore] 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant
Published: 5/5/2025 -
[encore] 789: hoop snake by Rebecca Wee
Published: 5/2/2025 -
[encore] 547: Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Published: 5/1/2025 -
[encore] 661: The Field by Rick Barot
Published: 4/30/2025 -
[encore] 765: a fishing story. by Mia S. Willis
Published: 4/29/2025 -
[encore] 723: Divorce by José A. Alcántara
Published: 4/28/2025 -
[encore] 476: Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
Published: 4/25/2025 -
[encore] 499: Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster
Published: 4/24/2025 -
[encore] 143: Untitled by Sesshu Foster
Published: 4/23/2025
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.