The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1310 Episodes
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1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta
Published: 31/05/2024 -
1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess
Published: 30/05/2024 -
1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal
Published: 29/05/2024 -
1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas
Published: 28/05/2024 -
1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson
Published: 27/05/2024 -
1125: English by Janel Pineda
Published: 24/05/2024 -
1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson
Published: 23/05/2024 -
1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay
Published: 22/05/2024 -
1122: Childhood by David Baker
Published: 21/05/2024 -
1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis
Published: 20/05/2024 -
1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
Published: 17/05/2024 -
1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White
Published: 16/05/2024 -
1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona
Published: 15/05/2024 -
1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Published: 14/05/2024 -
1116: Mercy by Dessa
Published: 13/05/2024 -
1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza
Published: 10/05/2024 -
1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky
Published: 9/05/2024 -
1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi
Published: 8/05/2024 -
1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White
Published: 7/05/2024 -
1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher
Published: 6/05/2024
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.
