The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1311 Episodes
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732: Caregiving
Published: 3/08/2022 -
731: no name in the street
Published: 2/08/2022 -
730: Borderland Apocrypha
Published: 1/08/2022 -
729: Fiery Young Colored Girl
Published: 29/07/2022 -
728: Grief Symphony
Published: 28/07/2022 -
727: Ode to the Crossfader
Published: 27/07/2022 -
726: After Abolition
Published: 26/07/2022 -
725: Black Light
Published: 25/07/2022 -
724: Conditionally
Published: 22/07/2022 -
723: Divorce
Published: 21/07/2022 -
722: Ghazal for Dogeaters
Published: 20/07/2022 -
721: Self-Portrait as Duckie Dale
Published: 19/07/2022 -
720: The Trees are Down
Published: 18/07/2022 -
719: Museum of Sex
Published: 15/07/2022 -
718: Weeding
Published: 14/07/2022 -
717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward
Published: 13/07/2022 -
716: Without
Published: 12/07/2022 -
715: I Dream of Horses Eating Cops
Published: 11/07/2022 -
714: A Personality Test
Published: 8/07/2022 -
713: how to make her stay
Published: 7/07/2022
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.