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. <br/> <br/>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. <br/> <br/>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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1205: Leaving by Madeleine Cravens 2024-09-27
1204: The Joseph Cornell App by David Roderick 2024-09-26
1203: This Living by Amber Tamblyn 2024-09-25
1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin 2024-09-24
1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh 2024-09-23
1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin 2024-09-20
1199: Homo naledi by Sara Borjas 2024-09-19
1198: The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright 2024-09-18
1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons 2024-09-17
1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang 2024-09-16
[encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama 2024-09-13
[encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black 2024-09-12
[encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok 2024-09-11
[encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz 2024-09-10
[encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith 2024-09-09
[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda 2024-09-06
[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike 2024-09-05
[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson 2024-09-04
[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon 2024-09-03
[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2024-09-02
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