The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1310 Episodes
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1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin
Published: 20/09/2024 -
1199: Homo naledi by Sara Borjas
Published: 19/09/2024 -
1198: The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright
Published: 18/09/2024 -
1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons
Published: 17/09/2024 -
1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang
Published: 16/09/2024 -
[encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama
Published: 13/09/2024 -
[encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black
Published: 12/09/2024 -
[encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Published: 11/09/2024 -
[encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Published: 10/09/2024 -
[encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith
Published: 9/09/2024 -
[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda
Published: 6/09/2024 -
[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
Published: 5/09/2024 -
[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson
Published: 4/09/2024 -
[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
Published: 3/09/2024 -
[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Published: 2/09/2024 -
1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
Published: 30/08/2024 -
1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
Published: 29/08/2024 -
1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
Published: 28/08/2024 -
1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
Published: 27/08/2024 -
1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Published: 26/08/2024
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.
