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.
Episodi
- 1231: Gala Noise by Diane Mehta
- 1230: Second Paradise by Chard deNiord
- 1229: Refugia by Traci Brimhall
- 1228: Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio
- 1227: Genetics by Sinead Morrissey
- 1226: The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky
- 1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman
- 1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel
- 1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
- 1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham