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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1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess 2024-05-30
1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal 2024-05-29
1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas 2024-05-28
1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson 2024-05-27
1125: English by Janel Pineda 2024-05-24
1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson 2024-05-23
1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay 2024-05-22
1122: Childhood by David Baker 2024-05-21
1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis 2024-05-20
1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller 2024-05-17
1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White 2024-05-16
1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona 2024-05-15
1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2024-05-14
1116: Mercy by Dessa 2024-05-13
1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza 2024-05-10
1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky 2024-05-09
1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi 2024-05-08
1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White 2024-05-07
1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher 2024-05-06
1110: Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman 2024-05-03
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