The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1312 Episodes
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413: Ask Me Why I Love You
Published: 24/06/2020 -
412: Words Were Changing
Published: 23/06/2020 -
411: Soaking Up Sun
Published: 22/06/2020 -
410: For My People
Published: 19/06/2020 -
409: How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This
Published: 18/06/2020 -
408: The Emperor's Deer
Published: 17/06/2020 -
407: At the Age of 18 - Ode to Girls of Color
Published: 16/06/2020 -
406: from here i saw what happened and i cried
Published: 15/06/2020 -
405: We Are Not Responsible
Published: 12/06/2020 -
404: On the D Train
Published: 11/06/2020 -
403: The Book of Genesis
Published: 10/06/2020 -
402: Whipping Tree
Published: 9/06/2020 -
401: Eliza Harris
Published: 8/06/2020 -
400: [They will tell you that I was sick, that I was a drug addict.]
Published: 5/06/2020 -
399: supply and demand
Published: 4/06/2020 -
398: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“You don’t seem to want it, but you wanted it”]
Published: 3/06/2020 -
397: A Small Needful Fact
Published: 2/06/2020 -
396: December
Published: 1/06/2020 -
395: Characters
Published: 29/05/2020 -
394: Blackbird Étude
Published: 28/05/2020
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.