The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1311 Episodes
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672: The Cattle Dog
Published: 11/05/2022 -
671: September
Published: 10/05/2022 -
670: Think of Me, Laughing
Published: 9/05/2022 -
669: Blueberries for Cal
Published: 6/05/2022 -
668: Lament
Published: 5/05/2022 -
667: Now That You've Met God, Where to Go From Here
Published: 4/05/2022 -
666: Against Mastery
Published: 3/05/2022 -
665: Metro-North
Published: 2/05/2022 -
664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski
Published: 29/04/2022 -
663: The Evening Meeting
Published: 28/04/2022 -
662: To Be in Love
Published: 27/04/2022 -
661: The Field
Published: 26/04/2022 -
660: Flowers, Poems, Flower Poems
Published: 25/04/2022 -
659: soiree
Published: 22/04/2022 -
658: Shot in Sobriety
Published: 21/04/2022 -
657: Deep in the Rock
Published: 20/04/2022 -
656: cycle
Published: 19/04/2022 -
655: The Frolicsome Crests and Glistening
Published: 18/04/2022 -
654: In the End You Get Everything Back (Liza Minnelli)
Published: 15/04/2022 -
653: Get Out of the Water
Published: 14/04/2022
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.