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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1039: What Good Is Silence 2024-01-11
[encore] 877: The Lifeline 2024-01-10
1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings 2024-01-09
1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers 2024-01-08
1036: Pleasure 2024-01-05
1035: The Darkling Thrush 2024-01-04
1034: Cliché 2024-01-03
1033: On Meeting My Biological Father 2024-01-02
1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me 2024-01-01
1031: Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear 2023-12-29
1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio 2023-12-28
1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso 2023-12-27
1028: Yet, the Loveliness 2023-12-26
1027: The Memory of the Young 2023-12-25
1026: Ode to Bones 2023-12-22
1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World 2023-12-21
1024: Ashes 2023-12-20
1023: Hurrying Toward the Present 2023-12-19
1022: Two Shadows 2023-12-18
1021: Making Things 2023-12-15
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