The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1154: Selfsame River Thrice by Alicia Mountain

    Published: 7/4/2024

  2. 1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey

    Published: 7/3/2024

  3. 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

    Published: 7/2/2024

  4. 1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero

    Published: 7/1/2024

  5. 1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio

    Published: 6/28/2024

  6. 1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

    Published: 6/27/2024

  7. 1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari

    Published: 6/26/2024

  8. 1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer

    Published: 6/25/2024

  9. 1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong

    Published: 6/24/2024

  10. 1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman

    Published: 6/21/2024

  11. 1144: Horse by TR Brady

    Published: 6/20/2024

  12. 1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen

    Published: 6/19/2024

  13. 1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier

    Published: 6/18/2024

  14. 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

  15. 1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes

    Published: 6/14/2024

  16. 1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke

    Published: 6/13/2024

  17. 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Published: 6/12/2024

  18. 1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter

    Published: 6/11/2024

  19. 1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn

    Published: 6/10/2024

  20. 1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider

    Published: 6/7/2024

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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.