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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[encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough 2025-05-23
[encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan 2025-05-22
[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong 2025-05-21
[encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago 2025-05-20
[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate 2025-05-19
[encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock 2025-05-16
[encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō 2025-05-15
[encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher 2025-05-14
[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong 2025-05-13
[encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla 2025-05-12
[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne 2025-05-09
[encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron 2025-05-08
[encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin 2025-05-07
[encore] 860: Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu 2025-05-06
[encore] 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant 2025-05-05
[encore] 789: hoop snake by Rebecca Wee 2025-05-02
[encore] 547: Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay 2025-05-01
[encore] 661: The Field by Rick Barot 2025-04-30
[encore] 765: a fishing story. by Mia S. Willis 2025-04-29
[encore] 723: Divorce by José A. Alcántara 2025-04-28
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