The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1311 Episodes
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712: Saguaros
Published: 6/07/2022 -
711: Droplet
Published: 5/07/2022 -
710: Acknowledgments
Published: 4/07/2022 -
709: Work Song
Published: 1/07/2022 -
708: Bruised Peaches
Published: 30/06/2022 -
707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction
Published: 29/06/2022 -
706: Scavenged
Published: 28/06/2022 -
705: The Bats
Published: 27/06/2022 -
704: Hunter's Moon
Published: 24/06/2022 -
703: A Thousand Cardinals
Published: 23/06/2022 -
702: Slow Drag with Branches of Pine
Published: 22/06/2022 -
701: Summer Sorrow
Published: 21/06/2022 -
700: Juneteenth, 2020
Published: 20/06/2022 -
699: Photosynthesis
Published: 17/06/2022 -
698: Morning Freight
Published: 16/06/2022 -
697: When Light Leaves Her Eyes
Published: 15/06/2022 -
696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor
Published: 14/06/2022 -
695: Pastoral
Published: 13/06/2022 -
694: Romance Is in the Air
Published: 10/06/2022 -
693: Portrait of the Artist
Published: 9/06/2022
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.