The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1457 Episodes

  1. 1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

    Published: 3/19/2024

  2. 1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

    Published: 3/18/2024

  3. 1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

    Published: 3/15/2024

  4. 1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard

    Published: 3/14/2024

  5. 1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein

    Published: 3/13/2024

  6. 1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur

    Published: 3/12/2024

  7. 1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter

    Published: 3/11/2024

  8. 1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross

    Published: 3/8/2024

  9. 1069: An Exchange by Corey Marks

    Published: 3/7/2024

  10. 1068: Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke

    Published: 3/6/2024

  11. 1067: blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley

    Published: 3/5/2024

  12. 1066: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon

    Published: 3/4/2024

  13. 1065: First of March by Stacie Cassarino

    Published: 3/1/2024

  14. 1064: Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell

    Published: 2/29/2024

  15. 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black

    Published: 2/28/2024

  16. 1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman

    Published: 2/27/2024

  17. 1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy

    Published: 2/26/2024

  18. [encore] 996: Portable Paradise

    Published: 2/23/2024

  19. [encore] 1008: Kinds of Silence

    Published: 2/22/2024

  20. [encore] 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé

    Published: 2/21/2024

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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.