The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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591: The Remaining Facts
Published: 18/01/2022 -
590: "Let my anger be the celebration we were never / supposed to have."
Published: 17/01/2022 -
589: addy
Published: 14/01/2022 -
588: Good Death
Published: 13/01/2022 -
587: An Old Story
Published: 12/01/2022 -
586: Poem That Leaves Behind The Ocean
Published: 11/01/2022 -
585: Complex Nonlinear Systems
Published: 10/01/2022 -
584: Marte
Published: 7/01/2022 -
583: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Pursuit of Gender Euphoria
Published: 6/01/2022 -
582: Marrying the Wind
Published: 5/01/2022 -
581: Red-ish Brown-ish
Published: 4/01/2022 -
580: Walking the Dogs
Published: 3/01/2022 -
579: My Empire
Published: 31/12/2021 -
578: Setting Lemon Curd
Published: 30/12/2021 -
577: Poem Beginning to Sound
Published: 29/12/2021 -
576: Taking Down the Tree
Published: 28/12/2021 -
575: How I Learned Bliss
Published: 27/12/2021 -
574: Monday
Published: 24/12/2021 -
573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood
Published: 23/12/2021 -
572: Earth Evanescent
Published: 22/12/2021
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.