The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1440 Episodes
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1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
Published: 22/03/2024 -
1079: Cassandra by Sasha West
Published: 21/03/2024 -
1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
Published: 20/03/2024 -
1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn
Published: 19/03/2024 -
1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart
Published: 18/03/2024 -
1075: Translation by Anne Spencer
Published: 15/03/2024 -
1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard
Published: 14/03/2024 -
1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein
Published: 13/03/2024 -
1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur
Published: 12/03/2024 -
1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter
Published: 11/03/2024 -
1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross
Published: 8/03/2024 -
1069: An Exchange by Corey Marks
Published: 7/03/2024 -
1068: Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke
Published: 6/03/2024 -
1067: blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley
Published: 5/03/2024 -
1066: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon
Published: 4/03/2024 -
1065: First of March by Stacie Cassarino
Published: 1/03/2024 -
1064: Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell
Published: 29/02/2024 -
1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black
Published: 28/02/2024 -
1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman
Published: 27/02/2024 -
1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy
Published: 26/02/2024
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.
