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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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.
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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 390: Cascades 501

390: Cascades 501

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05/22/20 • 5 min

Today's poem is Cascades 501 by Rick Barot.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 875: Olympians vs. Modernity

875: Olympians vs. Modernity

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05/11/23 • 9 min

Today’s poem is Olympians vs. Modernity by Adelaide Sendlenski. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets.


Adelaide, today’s co-host, is a dedicated tennis player. She’s so busy with school and sports that she writes poetry in the minutes between, thinking up lines while in motion. Today’s poem is one of her own, a poem which deftly connects the power of the Greek gods to the power we aim to claim through consumer culture.


We would love to hear your thoughts on these special episodes for young people. Please go to slowdownshow.org/survey to tell us what you think!

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 693: Portrait of the Artist

693: Portrait of the Artist

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06/09/22 • 5 min

Today’s poem is Portrait of the Artist by Dorothy Parker.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 704: Hunter's Moon

704: Hunter's Moon

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06/24/22 • 6 min

Today’s poem is Hunter's Moon by Ansel Elkins.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 742: In the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049

742: In the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049

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08/17/22 • 4 min

Today’s poem is In the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049 by Nina Mingya Powles.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 716: Without

716: Without

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07/12/22 • 4 min

Today’s poem is Without by Joy Harjo.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 389: Kissing the Opelu

389: Kissing the Opelu

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05/21/20 • 5 min

Today's poem is Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 384: And We Love Life

384: And We Love Life

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05/14/20 • 5 min

Today's poem is And We Love Life by Mahmoud Darwish.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 405: We Are Not Responsible

405: We Are Not Responsible

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06/12/20 • 5 min

Today's poem is We Are Not Responsible by Harryette Mullen. This episode originally aired October 31, 2019.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - 414: Full Capacity

414: Full Capacity

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06/25/20 • 5 min

Today's poem is Full Capacity by Rose McLarney.

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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily currently has 1246 episodes available.

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The episode title '390: Cascades 501' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily is 5 minutes.

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