The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1141: When I Was in My Early Thirties I Saw Elton John in a Nightclub in Atlanta Called Tongue and Groove by Khadijah Queen

    Published: 6/17/2024

  2. 1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes

    Published: 6/14/2024

  3. 1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke

    Published: 6/13/2024

  4. 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Published: 6/12/2024

  5. 1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter

    Published: 6/11/2024

  6. 1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn

    Published: 6/10/2024

  7. 1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider

    Published: 6/7/2024

  8. 1134: Americans by Katie Peterson

    Published: 6/6/2024

  9. 1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty

    Published: 6/5/2024

  10. 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant

    Published: 6/4/2024

  11. 1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel

    Published: 6/3/2024

  12. 1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta

    Published: 5/31/2024

  13. 1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess

    Published: 5/30/2024

  14. 1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal

    Published: 5/29/2024

  15. 1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas

    Published: 5/28/2024

  16. 1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson

    Published: 5/27/2024

  17. 1125: English by Janel Pineda

    Published: 5/24/2024

  18. 1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson

    Published: 5/23/2024

  19. 1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay

    Published: 5/22/2024

  20. 1122: Childhood by David Baker

    Published: 5/21/2024

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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.