The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1105: Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral

    Published: 4/26/2024

  2. 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

    Published: 4/25/2024

  3. 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

    Published: 4/24/2024

  4. 1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook

    Published: 4/23/2024

  5. 1101: 1971 Pontiac LeMans by Thomas Bolt

    Published: 4/22/2024

  6. 1100: Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley

    Published: 4/19/2024

  7. 1099: Something by Andrea Cohen

    Published: 4/18/2024

  8. 1098: Rant by Nathalie Anderson

    Published: 4/17/2024

  9. 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike

    Published: 4/16/2024

  10. 1096: Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams

    Published: 4/15/2024

  11. 1095: Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky

    Published: 4/12/2024

  12. 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

    Published: 4/11/2024

  13. 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

    Published: 4/10/2024

  14. 1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah

    Published: 4/9/2024

  15. 1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield

    Published: 4/8/2024

  16. 1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker

    Published: 4/5/2024

  17. 1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández

    Published: 4/4/2024

  18. 1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

    Published: 4/3/2024

  19. 1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist

    Published: 4/2/2024

  20. 1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet

    Published: 4/1/2024

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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.