The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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493: Red Wine Spills
Published: 14/10/2020 -
492: i woke up and the day caught me
Published: 13/10/2020 -
491: aubade for the whole hood
Published: 12/10/2020 -
490: And We Love Life
Published: 9/10/2020 -
489: Pigeon and Hawk
Published: 8/10/2020 -
488: Bedtime Story
Published: 7/10/2020 -
487: Reports of the Dream You're Not Likely to Recover From
Published: 6/10/2020 -
486: Mount Rushmore
Published: 5/10/2020 -
485: The Bald Truth
Published: 2/10/2020 -
484: Letter to the Local Police
Published: 1/10/2020 -
483: Bring Now the Angels
Published: 30/09/2020 -
482: Nightingale Pledge
Published: 29/09/2020 -
481: brown and black people on shark tank
Published: 28/09/2020 -
480: Blues for Almost Forgotten Music
Published: 25/09/2020 -
479: The Piano Speaks
Published: 24/09/2020 -
478: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Published: 23/09/2020 -
477: Groovin' Low
Published: 22/09/2020 -
476: Minneapolipstick
Published: 21/09/2020 -
475: Some Call It God
Published: 18/09/2020 -
474: In the middle of Metro Manila's water crisis, my mother posts a picture of my siblings in a swimming pool
Published: 17/09/2020
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.