1476 Episodes

  1. [encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

    Published: 6/9/2025

  2. [encore] 373: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

    Published: 6/6/2025

  3. [encore] 459: The Feeling by Ari Banias

    Published: 6/5/2025

  4. [encore] 303: Telling My Father by James Crews

    Published: 6/4/2025

  5. [encore] 9: Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal by Kaveh Akbar

    Published: 6/3/2025

  6. [encore] 311: Listen, by Barbara Crooker

    Published: 6/2/2025

  7. [encore] 821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks

    Published: 5/30/2025

  8. [encore] 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

    Published: 5/29/2025

  9. [encore] 1168: Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher

    Published: 5/28/2025

  10. [encore] 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

    Published: 5/27/2025

  11. [encore] 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein

    Published: 5/26/2025

  12. [encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough

    Published: 5/23/2025

  13. [encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan

    Published: 5/22/2025

  14. [encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong

    Published: 5/21/2025

  15. [encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago

    Published: 5/20/2025

  16. [encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate

    Published: 5/19/2025

  17. [encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock

    Published: 5/16/2025

  18. [encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō

    Published: 5/15/2025

  19. [encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher

    Published: 5/14/2025

  20. [encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

    Published: 5/13/2025

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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.