The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Published: 8/1/2024

  2. 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

    Published: 7/31/2024

  3. 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

    Published: 7/30/2024

  4. 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 7/29/2024

  5. 1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz

    Published: 7/26/2024

  6. 1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young

    Published: 7/25/2024

  7. 1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher

    Published: 7/24/2024

  8. 1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley

    Published: 7/23/2024

  9. 1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts

    Published: 7/22/2024

  10. 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama

    Published: 7/19/2024

  11. 1164: Act of Gratitude by Cyrus Cassells

    Published: 7/18/2024

  12. 1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi

    Published: 7/17/2024

  13. 1162: But Beautiful by Rodney Terich Leonard

    Published: 7/16/2024

  14. 1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney

    Published: 7/15/2024

  15. 1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles

    Published: 7/12/2024

  16. 1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua

    Published: 7/11/2024

  17. 1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok

    Published: 7/10/2024

  18. 1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward

    Published: 7/9/2024

  19. 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

    Published: 7/8/2024

  20. 1155: A Toast by Oksana Zabuzhko

    Published: 7/5/2024

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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.