The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1440 Episodes
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1250: 52 Blue by Sappho Stanley
Published: 29/11/2024 -
1249: Farmers' Market by Molly Fisk
Published: 28/11/2024 -
1248: Listening to Monk's Misterioso I Remember Braiding My Sisters' Hair by Christopher Gilbert
Published: 27/11/2024 -
1247: A Garden and a Street by Teresa Cader
Published: 26/11/2024 -
1246: Big Purple Peonies by Margaret Ross
Published: 25/11/2024 -
1245: Telescope by Louise Glück
Published: 22/11/2024 -
1244: Poem by Frank O'Hara
Published: 21/11/2024 -
1243: Waiting for the Annular Eclipse by Rhoni Blankenhorn
Published: 20/11/2024 -
1242: Aleppo by Hala Alyan
Published: 19/11/2024 -
1241: Brooklyn is for Breakups by Chen Chen
Published: 18/11/2024 -
1240: Mother of the English Language by Nicole Arocho Hernández
Published: 15/11/2024 -
1239: My Father Flying by Jan Beatty
Published: 14/11/2024 -
1238: Forgiveness Rock Record by Tawanda Mulalu
Published: 13/11/2024 -
1237: Shadow Play by Jessica Fisher
Published: 12/11/2024 -
1236: Letter to a Young Poet by Megan Fernandes
Published: 11/11/2024 -
1235: On Being by Ruben Quesada
Published: 8/11/2024 -
1234: Mami Told Me to Put Water under the Bed by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
Published: 7/11/2024 -
1233: Trans Loneliness by Rickey Laurentiis
Published: 6/11/2024 -
1232: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto Ríos
Published: 5/11/2024 -
1231: Gala Noise by Diane Mehta
Published: 4/11/2024
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.
