The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1435 Episodes
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1331: The Party is Downstairs by Didi Jackson
Published: 11/04/2025 -
1330: Playback by Lauren Camp
Published: 10/04/2025 -
1329: Mantle by Kevin Young
Published: 9/04/2025 -
1328: Forge by Ethel Rackin
Published: 8/04/2025 -
1327: Gertrude: In the Rooms by Kate Daniels
Published: 7/04/2025 -
1326: The Slowdown Live
Published: 4/04/2025 -
1325: Flame by C.D. Wright
Published: 3/04/2025 -
1324: Why I Write Poetry by Major Jackson
Published: 2/04/2025 -
1323: The Ways of Remembering Women by Lynne Thompson
Published: 1/04/2025 -
1322: [as freedom is a breakfastfood] by E.E. Cummings
Published: 31/03/2025 -
1321: The Running of Several Simulations at Once May Lead to Murky Data by Heather Christle
Published: 28/03/2025 -
1320: mulberry fields by Lucille Clifton
Published: 27/03/2025 -
encore [902]: Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo
Published: 26/03/2025 -
1319: The Rain, Life, and Other Things by Leah Umansky
Published: 25/03/2025 -
1318: Desert Sayings by Donovan McAbee
Published: 24/03/2025 -
1317: Grinning in Sardinia by Tomás Q. Morín
Published: 21/03/2025 -
1316: Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her Citizenship Exam by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Published: 20/03/2025 -
encore [1224]: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel
Published: 19/03/2025 -
1315: Milestone 2 (We Laugh About the Weather, Its Permanence) by Divya Victor
Published: 18/03/2025 -
1314: If we had known, by Marissa Davis
Published: 17/03/2025
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.
