The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1354 Episodes

  1. 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

    Published: 4/11/2024

  2. 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

    Published: 4/10/2024

  3. 1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah

    Published: 4/9/2024

  4. 1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield

    Published: 4/8/2024

  5. 1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker

    Published: 4/5/2024

  6. 1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández

    Published: 4/4/2024

  7. 1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

    Published: 4/3/2024

  8. 1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist

    Published: 4/2/2024

  9. 1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet

    Published: 4/1/2024

  10. 1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze

    Published: 3/29/2024

  11. 1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah

    Published: 3/28/2024

  12. 1083: first person by Ed Roberson

    Published: 3/27/2024

  13. 1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe

    Published: 3/26/2024

  14. 1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    Published: 3/25/2024

  15. 1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

    Published: 3/22/2024

  16. 1079: Cassandra by Sasha West

    Published: 3/21/2024

  17. 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

    Published: 3/20/2024

  18. 1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

    Published: 3/19/2024

  19. 1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

    Published: 3/18/2024

  20. 1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

    Published: 3/15/2024

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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.