The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1440 Episodes
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[encore] 1026: Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson
Published: 27/12/2024 -
[encore] 908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx by Carlie Hoffman
Published: 26/12/2024 -
[encore] 1122: Childhood by David Baker
Published: 25/12/2024 -
[encore] 1022: Two Shadows by Maurice Manning
Published: 24/12/2024 -
[encore] 1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi
Published: 23/12/2024 -
1265: Gorgon Loves Googie's by Rebecca Morgan Frank
Published: 20/12/2024 -
1264: The Room is a Rectangle by Marianne Chan
Published: 19/12/2024 -
1263: Film Theory by Xan Forest Phillips
Published: 18/12/2024 -
1262: The Future of Terror / 1 by Matthea Harvey
Published: 17/12/2024 -
1261: Immersive by Joseph Millar
Published: 16/12/2024 -
1260: Fade Away by Amorak Huey
Published: 13/12/2024 -
1259: When you have to kill everybody in the room by Niki Herd
Published: 12/12/2024 -
1258: The Trees by Jericho Brown
Published: 11/12/2024 -
1257: Time || Immemorial by Daniel Simon
Published: 10/12/2024 -
1256: A Dominican Poem by Danielle Legros Georges
Published: 9/12/2024 -
1255: The Presence in Absence by Linda Gregg
Published: 6/12/2024 -
1254: That's My Heart Right There by Willie Perdomo
Published: 5/12/2024 -
1253: On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay
Published: 4/12/2024 -
1252: The Canonization by John Donne
Published: 3/12/2024 -
1251: On Living by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Published: 2/12/2024
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.
