The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1310 Episodes
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[encore] 696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor
Published: 13/01/2023 -
Returning with new host Major Jackson
Published: 12/01/2023 -
[encore] 581: Red-ish Brown-ish
Published: 12/01/2023 -
[encore] 625: Not everything is a poem
Published: 11/01/2023 -
796: It Must Be The Supermarket in Me
Published: 10/01/2023 -
[encore] 643: Eventually / One Point Where We Arrive
Published: 9/01/2023 -
[encore] 719: Museum of Sex
Published: 6/01/2023 -
[encore] 555: Private Property
Published: 5/01/2023 -
[encore] 772: On Friendship
Published: 4/01/2023 -
[encore] 513: Romantics
Published: 3/01/2023 -
[encore] 769: Meeting at an Airport
Published: 2/01/2023 -
[encore] 739: Cherry Blossoms
Published: 30/12/2022 -
[encore] 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood
Published: 29/12/2022 -
[encore] 562: The Lonely Humans
Published: 28/12/2022 -
[encore] 685: Trees at Night
Published: 27/12/2022 -
[encore] 576: Taking Down the Tree
Published: 26/12/2022 -
[encore] 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal
Published: 23/12/2022 -
[encore] 584: Marte
Published: 22/12/2022 -
[encore] 699: Photosynthesis
Published: 21/12/2022 -
[encore] 567: Besaydoo
Published: 20/12/2022
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.