The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1441 Episodes

  1. 1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney

    Published: 7/15/2024

  2. 1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles

    Published: 7/12/2024

  3. 1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua

    Published: 7/11/2024

  4. 1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok

    Published: 7/10/2024

  5. 1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward

    Published: 7/9/2024

  6. 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

    Published: 7/8/2024

  7. 1155: A Toast by Oksana Zabuzhko

    Published: 7/5/2024

  8. 1154: Selfsame River Thrice by Alicia Mountain

    Published: 7/4/2024

  9. 1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey

    Published: 7/3/2024

  10. 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

    Published: 7/2/2024

  11. 1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero

    Published: 7/1/2024

  12. 1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio

    Published: 6/28/2024

  13. 1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

    Published: 6/27/2024

  14. 1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari

    Published: 6/26/2024

  15. 1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer

    Published: 6/25/2024

  16. 1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong

    Published: 6/24/2024

  17. 1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman

    Published: 6/21/2024

  18. 1144: Horse by TR Brady

    Published: 6/20/2024

  19. 1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen

    Published: 6/19/2024

  20. 1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier

    Published: 6/18/2024

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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.