The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
by American Public Media
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.
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Episodes
497: Gwendolyn Brooks: America in the Wintertime
5m · PublishedToday's poem is Gwendolyn Brooks: America in the Wintertime by Haki R. Madhubuti.
News from The Slowdown
2m · PublishedAn update about the show and a message from Tracy K. Smith.
496: a brief meditation on breath
5m · PublishedToday's poem is a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla.
495: Naming Ceremony
5m · PublishedToday's poem is Naming Ceremony by Hafizah Geter.
This episode originally aired on April 4, 2020.
494: Often I am Permitted to Return to the City
5m · PublishedToday's poem is Often I am Permitted to Return to the City by Phillip B. Williams.
493: Red Wine Spills
5m · PublishedToday's poem is Red Wine Spills by L. Ash Williams.
492: i woke up and the day caught me
5m · PublishedToday's poem is i woke up and the day caught me by Kara Jackson.
491: aubade for the whole hood
5m · PublishedToday's poem is aubade for the whole hood by Nate Marshall.
490: And We Love Life
5m · PublishedToday's poem is And We Love Life by Mahmoud Darwish.
This episode originally aired May 14, 2020.
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily has 1117 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 105:08:55. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 19th, 2024 02:40.