1467 Episodes

  1. 1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons

    Published: 9/17/2024

  2. 1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang

    Published: 9/16/2024

  3. [encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama

    Published: 9/13/2024

  4. [encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black

    Published: 9/12/2024

  5. [encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Published: 9/11/2024

  6. [encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz

    Published: 9/10/2024

  7. [encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

    Published: 9/9/2024

  8. [encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda

    Published: 9/6/2024

  9. [encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike

    Published: 9/5/2024

  10. [encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson

    Published: 9/4/2024

  11. [encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

    Published: 9/3/2024

  12. [encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Published: 9/2/2024

  13. 1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy

    Published: 8/30/2024

  14. 1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan

    Published: 8/29/2024

  15. 1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin

    Published: 8/28/2024

  16. 1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd

    Published: 8/27/2024

  17. 1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

    Published: 8/26/2024

  18. 1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett

    Published: 8/23/2024

  19. 1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer

    Published: 8/22/2024

  20. 1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown

    Published: 8/21/2024

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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.