1495 Épisodes

  1. [encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

    Publié: 04/07/2025

  2. [encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

    Publié: 03/07/2025

  3. [encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké

    Publié: 02/07/2025

  4. [encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

    Publié: 01/07/2025

  5. [encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko

    Publié: 30/06/2025

  6. [encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy

    Publié: 27/06/2025

  7. [encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker

    Publié: 26/06/2025

  8. [encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

    Publié: 25/06/2025

  9. [encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim

    Publié: 24/06/2025

  10. [encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan

    Publié: 23/06/2025

  11. [encore] 871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau

    Publié: 20/06/2025

  12. [encore] 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

    Publié: 19/06/2025

  13. 1332: Slow Take: An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with The Slowdown and The Porch

    Publié: 18/06/2025

  14. [encore] 969: Us by Zaffar Kunial

    Publié: 17/06/2025

  15. [encore] 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

    Publié: 16/06/2025

  16. [encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall

    Publié: 13/06/2025

  17. [encore] 531: anti-immigration by Evie Shockley

    Publié: 12/06/2025

  18. [encore] 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez

    Publié: 11/06/2025

  19. [encore] 516: In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem

    Publié: 10/06/2025

  20. [encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

    Publié: 09/06/2025

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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.

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