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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1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman 2024-02-27
1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy 2024-02-26
[encore] 996: Portable Paradise 2024-02-23
[encore] 1008: Kinds of Silence 2024-02-22
[encore] 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé 2024-02-21
[encore] 990: Feeding the Koi 2024-02-20
[encore] 929: this is a library 2024-02-19
[encore] 966: Love Poem, with Birds 2024-02-16
[encore] 955: Love Sits by My Father 2024-02-15
[encore] 807: Short Essay on Love 2024-02-14
[encore] 1003: Without Name 2024-02-13
[encore] 917: Love and the Deli Counter 2024-02-12
1060: Perhaps 2024-02-09
1059: Love and the Moon 2024-02-08
1058: The Dangers of Contemplation 2024-02-07
1057: Facebook Status 2024-02-06
1056: Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues 2024-02-05
1055: Dancing at The Get Down by Cat Wei 2024-02-02
1054: Hunger 2024-02-01
1053: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World 2024-01-31
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