The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1353 Episodes

  1. 1243: Waiting for the Annular Eclipse by Rhoni Blankenhorn

    Published: 11/20/2024

  2. 1242: Aleppo by Hala Alyan

    Published: 11/19/2024

  3. 1241: Brooklyn is for Breakups by Chen Chen

    Published: 11/18/2024

  4. 1240: Mother of the English Language by Nicole Arocho Hernández

    Published: 11/15/2024

  5. 1239: My Father Flying by Jan Beatty

    Published: 11/14/2024

  6. 1238: Forgiveness Rock Record by Tawanda Mulalu

    Published: 11/13/2024

  7. 1237: Shadow Play by Jessica Fisher

    Published: 11/12/2024

  8. 1236: Letter to a Young Poet by Megan Fernandes

    Published: 11/11/2024

  9. 1235: On Being by Ruben Quesada

    Published: 11/8/2024

  10. 1234: Mami Told Me to Put Water under the Bed by Peggy Robles-Alvarado

    Published: 11/7/2024

  11. 1233: Trans Loneliness by Rickey Laurentiis

    Published: 11/6/2024

  12. 1232: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto Ríos

    Published: 11/5/2024

  13. 1231: Gala Noise by Diane Mehta

    Published: 11/4/2024

  14. 1230: Second Paradise by Chard deNiord

    Published: 11/1/2024

  15. 1229: Refugia by Traci Brimhall

    Published: 10/31/2024

  16. 1228: Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio

    Published: 10/30/2024

  17. 1227: Genetics by Sinead Morrissey

    Published: 10/29/2024

  18. 1226: The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky

    Published: 10/28/2024

  19. 1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman

    Published: 10/25/2024

  20. 1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel

    Published: 10/24/2024

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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.