The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1440 Episodes
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[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda
Published: 6/09/2024 -
[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
Published: 5/09/2024 -
[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson
Published: 4/09/2024 -
[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
Published: 3/09/2024 -
[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Published: 2/09/2024 -
1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
Published: 30/08/2024 -
1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
Published: 29/08/2024 -
1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
Published: 28/08/2024 -
1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
Published: 27/08/2024 -
1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Published: 26/08/2024 -
1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
Published: 23/08/2024 -
1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
Published: 22/08/2024 -
1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
Published: 21/08/2024 -
1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
Published: 20/08/2024 -
1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
Published: 19/08/2024 -
1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
Published: 16/08/2024 -
1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Published: 15/08/2024 -
1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
Published: 14/08/2024 -
1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
Published: 13/08/2024 -
1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
Published: 12/08/2024
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.
