The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1308: Mother's Rules by Yalie Saweda Kamara

    Published: 3/6/2025

  2. [encore] 1039: What Good Is Silence by Phuong T. Vuong

    Published: 3/5/2025

  3. 1307: Field Guide as Sonnet by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar

    Published: 3/4/2025

  4. 1306: Ode to the Pink Cowboy Hat by Quinn Carver Johnson

    Published: 3/3/2025

  5. 1305: An Apology for Trashing Magazines in Which You Appear by Nicole Sealey

    Published: 2/28/2025

  6. 1304: Cinema Paradiso by Claire Booker

    Published: 2/27/2025

  7. 1303: Chaplinesque by Hart Crane

    Published: 2/26/2025

  8. 1302: One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism by Josh Bell

    Published: 2/25/2025

  9. 1301: Jaws by Emma Hine

    Published: 2/24/2025

  10. 1300: Genesis by Megan Pinto

    Published: 2/21/2025

  11. 1299: Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

    Published: 2/20/2025

  12. 1298: Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

    Published: 2/19/2025

  13. 1297: Jamboree, Evening, Midsummer by Austin Araujo

    Published: 2/18/2025

  14. 1296: In Which I Become (Skywoman) by Kenzie Allen

    Published: 2/17/2025

  15. 1295: Wind Ode by Sharon Olds

    Published: 2/14/2025

  16. 1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts

    Published: 2/13/2025

  17. 1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras

    Published: 2/12/2025

  18. 1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown

    Published: 2/11/2025

  19. 1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett

    Published: 2/10/2025

  20. 1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

    Published: 2/7/2025

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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.