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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Title Date published
993: Bundt Cake from Sam's Club 2023-11-07
992: Imago 2023-11-06
991: Googling Ourselves 2023-11-03
990: Feeding the Koi 2023-11-02
989: Signs, Music 2023-11-01
988: Hillwood 2023-10-31
987: Totalitarian 2023-10-30
986: EGGSHELLS 2023-10-27
985: Might Kindred 2023-10-26
984: Poem at the Top of a Mountain 2023-10-25
983: Things Haunt 2023-10-24
982: Rain 2023-10-23
981: Through a closed mouth the flies enter 2023-10-20
980: Villanelle 2023-10-19
979: The Listening World 2023-10-18
978: And the Beautiful 2023-10-17
977: sights and sounds on my way to you 2023-10-16
976: Wonder Wheel 2023-10-13
975: Love after Love 2023-10-12
974: Did you want to come in? 2023-10-11
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