The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1311 Episodes
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791: Love Poem
Published: 25/10/2022 -
790: Anxiety checks her phone again
Published: 24/10/2022 -
789: hoop snake
Published: 21/10/2022 -
788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash
Published: 20/10/2022 -
787: The Orange
Published: 19/10/2022 -
786: Compassion Comes Late
Published: 18/10/2022 -
785: Magdalene—The Seven Devils
Published: 17/10/2022 -
784: Sex Without Love
Published: 14/10/2022 -
783: The Beginning of the Beginning
Published: 13/10/2022 -
782: The Strength of U
Published: 12/10/2022 -
781: Cut Apple
Published: 11/10/2022 -
780: Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
Published: 10/10/2022 -
779: My Rock
Published: 7/10/2022 -
778: Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God
Published: 6/10/2022 -
777: The Lightkeeper
Published: 5/10/2022 -
776: Bonfire Brides
Published: 4/10/2022 -
775: A Case Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
Published: 3/10/2022 -
774: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn
Published: 30/09/2022 -
773: The Dead Are Beautiful Tonight
Published: 29/09/2022 -
772: On Friendship
Published: 28/09/2022
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.