The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
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1355 Episodes
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1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman
Published: 25/10/2024 -
1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel
Published: 24/10/2024 -
1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
Published: 23/10/2024 -
1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham
Published: 22/10/2024 -
1221: Home Movies: A Sort of Ode by Mary Jo Salter
Published: 21/10/2024 -
1220: Taking Stock by Elaine Equi
Published: 18/10/2024 -
1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell
Published: 17/10/2024 -
1218: Vulture by Ted Kooser
Published: 16/10/2024 -
1217: Abide by Jake Adam York
Published: 15/10/2024 -
1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris
Published: 14/10/2024 -
1215: The Clearing by Jane Kenyon
Published: 11/10/2024 -
1214: Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López
Published: 10/10/2024 -
1213: Pacific Power & Light by Michael Dickman
Published: 09/10/2024 -
1212: Eureka! by Jessica Abughattas
Published: 08/10/2024 -
1211: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert
Published: 07/10/2024 -
1210: Negro Hero (to Suggest Dorie Miller) by Gwendolyn Brooks
Published: 04/10/2024 -
1209: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Published: 03/10/2024 -
1208: Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons
Published: 02/10/2024 -
1207: from "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams
Published: 01/10/2024 -
1206: Birches by Robert Frost
Published: 30/09/2024
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.
