The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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  1. 1210: Negro Hero (to Suggest Dorie Miller) by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Published: 10/4/2024

  2. 1209: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

    Published: 10/3/2024

  3. 1208: Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons

    Published: 10/2/2024

  4. 1207: from "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams

    Published: 10/1/2024

  5. 1206: Birches by Robert Frost

    Published: 9/30/2024

  6. 1205: Leaving by Madeleine Cravens

    Published: 9/27/2024

  7. 1204: The Joseph Cornell App by David Roderick

    Published: 9/26/2024

  8. 1203: This Living by Amber Tamblyn

    Published: 9/25/2024

  9. 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin

    Published: 9/24/2024

  10. 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

    Published: 9/23/2024

  11. 1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin

    Published: 9/20/2024

  12. 1199: Homo naledi by Sara Borjas

    Published: 9/19/2024

  13. 1198: The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright

    Published: 9/18/2024

  14. 1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons

    Published: 9/17/2024

  15. 1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang

    Published: 9/16/2024

  16. [encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama

    Published: 9/13/2024

  17. [encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black

    Published: 9/12/2024

  18. [encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Published: 9/11/2024

  19. [encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz

    Published: 9/10/2024

  20. [encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

    Published: 9/9/2024

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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.