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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[encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann 2025-07-04
[encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse 2025-07-03
[encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké 2025-07-02
[encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez 2025-07-01
[encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko 2025-06-30
[encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy 2025-06-27
[encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker 2025-06-26
[encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres 2025-06-25
[encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim 2025-06-24
[encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan 2025-06-23
[encore] 871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau 2025-06-20
[encore] 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander 2025-06-19
1332: Slow Take: An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with The Slowdown and The Porch 2025-06-18
[encore] 969: Us by Zaffar Kunial 2025-06-17
[encore] 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge 2025-06-16
[encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall 2025-06-13
[encore] 531: anti-immigration by Evie Shockley 2025-06-12
[encore] 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez 2025-06-11
[encore] 516: In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem 2025-06-10
[encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg 2025-06-09
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