The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1310 Episodes
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1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz
Published: 26/07/2024 -
1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young
Published: 25/07/2024 -
1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher
Published: 24/07/2024 -
1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley
Published: 23/07/2024 -
1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Published: 22/07/2024 -
1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama
Published: 19/07/2024 -
1164: Act of Gratitude by Cyrus Cassells
Published: 18/07/2024 -
1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi
Published: 17/07/2024 -
1162: But Beautiful by Rodney Terich Leonard
Published: 16/07/2024 -
1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney
Published: 15/07/2024 -
1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles
Published: 12/07/2024 -
1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua
Published: 11/07/2024 -
1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok
Published: 10/07/2024 -
1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
Published: 9/07/2024 -
1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez
Published: 8/07/2024 -
1155: A Toast by Oksana Zabuzhko
Published: 5/07/2024 -
1154: Selfsame River Thrice by Alicia Mountain
Published: 4/07/2024 -
1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey
Published: 3/07/2024 -
1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge
Published: 2/07/2024 -
1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero
Published: 1/07/2024
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.
