The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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531: anti-immigration
Published: 26/10/2021 -
530: Cattails
Published: 25/10/2021 -
529: [Somewhere In Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed
Published: 22/10/2021 -
528: First
Published: 21/10/2021 -
527: Rabbits and Fire
Published: 20/10/2021 -
526: Saudade
Published: 19/10/2021 -
525: Bonsai Primer
Published: 18/10/2021 -
524: Today, When I Could Do Nothing
Published: 15/10/2021 -
523: Our Valley
Published: 14/10/2021 -
522: Across the Border
Published: 13/10/2021 -
521: Invocation
Published: 12/10/2021 -
520: I Worry My Mother Will Die and I Will Know Nothing
Published: 11/10/2021 -
519: Missing Cat
Published: 8/10/2021 -
518: Metamorphosis: The Female Into
Published: 7/10/2021 -
517: They'll Ask You Where it Hurts the Most
Published: 6/10/2021 -
516: In Response to Feeling Alone
Published: 5/10/2021 -
515: Matte
Published: 4/10/2021 -
514: Some Things are Unforgettable
Published: 1/10/2021 -
513: Romantics
Published: 30/09/2021 -
512: To Offer Sweet Fruit to the Ghost
Published: 29/09/2021
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.