The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1311 Episodes
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751: Behaving Like a Jew
Published: 30/08/2022 -
751: Behaving Like a Jew
Published: 30/08/2022 -
750: Ars Poetica
Published: 29/08/2022 -
749: Sun Goes Up
Published: 26/08/2022 -
748: gather them & give them back to me.
Published: 25/08/2022 -
747: The rest of a life
Published: 24/08/2022 -
746: A Study of Beauty
Published: 23/08/2022 -
745: My Name Is Not The Cruelest Month
Published: 22/08/2022 -
744: Contentment
Published: 19/08/2022 -
743: And the Word Was God
Published: 18/08/2022 -
742: In the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049
Published: 17/08/2022 -
741: Another Attempt at Rescue
Published: 16/08/2022 -
740: Shucking Oysters
Published: 15/08/2022 -
739: Cherry Blossoms
Published: 12/08/2022 -
738: Park Benches with Teeth
Published: 11/08/2022 -
737: A Small Moment
Published: 10/08/2022 -
736: For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard
Published: 9/08/2022 -
735: Deep Learning
Published: 8/08/2022 -
734: A Man in My Bed Like Cracker Crumbs
Published: 5/08/2022 -
733: Disease Is Not the Only Thing That Spreads
Published: 4/08/2022
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.