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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1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández 2024-04-04
1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo 2024-04-03
1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist 2024-04-02
1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet 2024-04-01
1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze 2024-03-29
1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah 2024-03-28
1083: first person by Ed Roberson 2024-03-27
1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe 2024-03-26
1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2024-03-25
1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman 2024-03-22
1079: Cassandra by Sasha West 2024-03-21
1078: Ferment by Monica Rico 2024-03-20
1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn 2024-03-19
1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart 2024-03-18
1075: Translation by Anne Spencer 2024-03-15
1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard 2024-03-14
1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein 2024-03-13
1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur 2024-03-12
1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter 2024-03-11
1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross 2024-03-08
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