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.
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<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.
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<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] 1125: English by Janel Pineda
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2024-09-06
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[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
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2024-09-05
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[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson
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2024-09-04
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[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
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2024-09-03
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[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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2024-09-02
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1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
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2024-08-30
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1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
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2024-08-29
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1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
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2024-08-28
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1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
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2024-08-27
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1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
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2024-08-26
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1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
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2024-08-23
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1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
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2024-08-22
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1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
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2024-08-21
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1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
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2024-08-20
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1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
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2024-08-19
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1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
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2024-08-16
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1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
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2024-08-15
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1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
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2024-08-14
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1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
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2024-08-13
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1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
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2024-08-12
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