The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1122: Childhood by David Baker

    Published: 5/21/2024

  2. 1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis

    Published: 5/20/2024

  3. 1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

    Published: 5/17/2024

  4. 1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White

    Published: 5/16/2024

  5. 1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona

    Published: 5/15/2024

  6. 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Published: 5/14/2024

  7. 1116: Mercy by Dessa

    Published: 5/13/2024

  8. 1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza

    Published: 5/10/2024

  9. 1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky

    Published: 5/9/2024

  10. 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

    Published: 5/8/2024

  11. 1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White

    Published: 5/7/2024

  12. 1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher

    Published: 5/6/2024

  13. 1110: Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman

    Published: 5/3/2024

  14. 1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier

    Published: 5/2/2024

  15. 1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux

    Published: 5/1/2024

  16. 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

    Published: 4/30/2024

  17. 1106: Life In The Gush Of Boasts by Elijah Burrell

    Published: 4/29/2024

  18. 1105: Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral

    Published: 4/26/2024

  19. 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

    Published: 4/25/2024

  20. 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

    Published: 4/24/2024

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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.