The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

A podcast by American Public Media

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1310 Episodes

  1. [encore] 521: Invocation

    Published: 21/11/2022

  2. [encore] 662: To Be in Love

    Published: 18/11/2022

  3. [encore] 612: After the Fire

    Published: 17/11/2022

  4. [encore] 549: Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

    Published: 16/11/2022

  5. [encore] 534: The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.

    Published: 15/11/2022

  6. [encore] 648: Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window

    Published: 14/11/2022

  7. [encore] 644: Georgia O'Keeffe, "From the Faraway, Nearby," 1937

    Published: 11/11/2022

  8. [encore] 611: During the Pandemic I Listen to the July 26, 1965, Juan-les-Pins Recording of A Love Supreme

    Published: 10/11/2022

  9. [encore] 646: every exquisite thing

    Published: 9/11/2022

  10. [encore] 595: Pegasus Autopsy

    Published: 8/11/2022

  11. [encore] 615: The Studio

    Published: 7/11/2022

  12. [encore] 629: Halfway

    Published: 4/11/2022

  13. [encore] 683: I Have a Rendezvous With Life

    Published: 3/11/2022

  14. [encore] 518: Metamorphosis: The Female Into

    Published: 2/11/2022

  15. 636: How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now

    Published: 1/11/2022

  16. 795: The End of Poetry

    Published: 31/10/2022

  17. 794: High Fidelity

    Published: 28/10/2022

  18. 793: Children Listen

    Published: 27/10/2022

  19. 792: Trash

    Published: 26/10/2022

  20. 791: Love Poem

    Published: 25/10/2022

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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.

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