The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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453: You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I've Made Today Warm
Published: 19/08/2020 -
452: The Ghosts of the Space Dogs
Published: 18/08/2020 -
451: Dancing with Kiko on the Moon
Published: 17/08/2020 -
450: Essay on Reentry
Published: 14/08/2020 -
449: Soft-Bodied Animals Leave Few Traces
Published: 13/08/2020 -
448: Telephone of the Wind
Published: 12/08/2020 -
447: We Eat Out Together
Published: 11/08/2020 -
446: When Fannie Lou Hamer Said
Published: 10/08/2020 -
445: Pomegranate Means Grenade
Published: 7/08/2020 -
444: Mood Ring
Published: 6/08/2020 -
443: The Aisle Not Taken
Published: 5/08/2020 -
442: Climbing China's Great Wall
Published: 4/08/2020 -
441: I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store
Published: 3/08/2020 -
440: Miz Rosa Rides the Bus
Published: 31/07/2020 -
439: Early Sunday Morning
Published: 30/07/2020 -
438: (First Trimester)
Published: 29/07/2020 -
437: Forgetfulness
Published: 28/07/2020 -
436: Happiness
Published: 27/07/2020 -
435: Inheritance
Published: 24/07/2020 -
434: For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose
Published: 23/07/2020
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.