The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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511: Present Tense
Published: 28/09/2021 -
510: Let Me
Published: 27/09/2021 -
509: Wondrous
Published: 24/09/2021 -
508: Rehearsal for the New World
Published: 23/09/2021 -
507: Do You Ever Think About Leaving, My Mother Asks
Published: 22/09/2021 -
506: At the Arcade I Paint Your Footprints
Published: 21/09/2021 -
The Slowdown returns with new host Ada Limón
Published: 9/09/2021 -
505: You Are Who I Love
Published: 30/10/2020 -
504: What the Kids in Subtle Asian Traits Know
Published: 29/10/2020 -
503: Before the Riot
Published: 28/10/2020 -
502: To D.B.
Published: 27/10/2020 -
501: Facial Recognition
Published: 26/10/2020 -
500: The Party
Published: 23/10/2020 -
499: Leaving Tulsa
Published: 22/10/2020 -
498: Owed to the 99 Cent Store
Published: 21/10/2020 -
497: Gwendolyn Brooks: America in the Wintertime
Published: 20/10/2020 -
News from The Slowdown
Published: 19/10/2020 -
496: a brief meditation on breath
Published: 19/10/2020 -
495: Naming Ceremony
Published: 16/10/2020 -
494: Often I am Permitted to Return to the City
Published: 15/10/2020
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.