The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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551: Tangerine Peel
Published: 23/11/2021 -
550: My Standard Response
Published: 22/11/2021 -
549: Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
Published: 19/11/2021 -
548: I Wonder If I Will Miss The Moss
Published: 18/11/2021 -
547: Travel
Published: 17/11/2021 -
546: Ouroboros (Or: A Brief Dip Into the Relationship I Have with My Mother)
Published: 16/11/2021 -
545: Response, Years Later, to Two Male Poets I Overheard Discussing How Sick They Were of Women's Poems about the Body
Published: 15/11/2021 -
544: Elegy for Estrogen
Published: 12/11/2021 -
543: The Hummingbird
Published: 11/11/2021 -
542: In Gratitude
Published: 10/11/2021 -
541: Little Grey Dreams
Published: 9/11/2021 -
540: far away from home I am hungry
Published: 8/11/2021 -
539: Full Moon
Published: 5/11/2021 -
538: Declassified
Published: 4/11/2021 -
537: Today I'm Not Thinking About Gender
Published: 3/11/2021 -
536: Hoodie
Published: 2/11/2021 -
535: This Close
Published: 1/11/2021 -
534: The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.
Published: 29/10/2021 -
533: Offering
Published: 28/10/2021 -
532: The Vine
Published: 27/10/2021
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.