The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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571: Golden Age
Published: 21/12/2021 -
570: Asking About My Mother
Published: 20/12/2021 -
569: Let's Crawl Into That Photograph & Stay There for a While
Published: 17/12/2021 -
568: When You're Young You Always Take Too Much
Published: 16/12/2021 -
567: Besaydoo
Published: 15/12/2021 -
566: [little tree]
Published: 14/12/2021 -
565: Go Inward
Published: 13/12/2021 -
564: Spell
Published: 10/12/2021 -
563: Dust of Snow
Published: 9/12/2021 -
562: The Lonely Humans
Published: 8/12/2021 -
561: from "frank: sonnets"
Published: 7/12/2021 -
560: I, Lover
Published: 6/12/2021 -
559: Parable of Childhood
Published: 3/12/2021 -
558: City That Does Not Sleep
Published: 2/12/2021 -
557: from A Year
Published: 1/12/2021 -
556: Our Land
Published: 30/11/2021 -
555: Private Property
Published: 29/11/2021 -
554: Sonoran Desert Poem
Published: 26/11/2021 -
553: Daylight Saving, Age 5
Published: 25/11/2021 -
552: Hammond B3 Organ Cistern
Published: 24/11/2021
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.