The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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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.

  • 28 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah

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    6 minutes 40 seconds
  • 27 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1083: first person by Ed Roberson

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    5 minutes 38 seconds
  • 26 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe

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    6 minutes 34 seconds
  • 25 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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    5 minutes 11 seconds
  • 22 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

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    6 minutes 41 seconds
  • 21 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1079: Cassandra by Sasha West

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    6 minutes 23 seconds
  • 20 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

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    5 minutes 44 seconds
  • 19 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

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    4 minutes 38 seconds
  • 18 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

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    5 minutes 43 seconds
  • 15 March 2024, 8:00 am

    1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

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    5 minutes 14 seconds
  • 14 March 2024, 8:00 am

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

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    7 minutes 46 seconds
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