
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
American Public Media
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.
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.
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Networks:
American Public Media
Description:
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. 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. 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.
Language:
English
1326: The Slowdown Live
Duration:01:26:14
1325: Flame by C.D. Wright
Duration:00:03:59
1324: Why I Write Poetry by Major Jackson
Duration:00:07:34
1323: The Ways of Remembering Women by Lynne Thompson
Duration:00:05:42
1322: [as freedom is a breakfastfood] by E.E. Cummings
Duration:00:04:04
1321: The Running of Several Simulations at Once May Lead to Murky Data by Heather Christle
Duration:00:06:21
1320: mulberry fields by Lucille Clifton
Duration:00:05:45
encore [902]: Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo
Duration:00:05:33
1319: The Rain, Life, and Other Things by Leah Umansky
Duration:00:08:36
1318: Desert Sayings by Donovan McAbee
Duration:00:05:39
1317: Grinning in Sardinia by Tomás Q. Morín
Duration:00:06:02
1316: Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her Citizenship Exam by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Duration:00:05:51
encore [1224]: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel
Duration:00:05:33
1315: Milestone 2 (We Laugh About the Weather, Its Impermanence) by Divya Victor
Duration:00:05:31
1314: If we had known, by Marissa Davis
Duration:00:06:06
1313: A Little Slice of Heaven by Jaswinder Bolina
Duration:00:06:06
1312: small comment by Sonia Sanchez
Duration:00:05:36
[encore] 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
Duration:00:05:44
1311: Gratitude by Patrick Dundon
Duration:00:05:48
1310: Divinity School by Ariana Reines
Duration:00:05:08